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The Calumet, also commonly called the Valpo Local, was a 43.6-mile (70.2 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak between Chicago and Valparaiso, Indiana. [1] Despite Amtrak's mandate to provide only intercity service, the Calumet was a commuter train.
Valparaiso station was a train station in Valparaiso, Indiana. Initially served by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it was the outbound terminus of the Amtrak Calumet until that service's discontinuance in 1991. [2] Amtrak began service here on April 25, 1976, as a stop of the Capitol Limited. [3]
In 2006, planning proceeded for an extension to Valparaiso, Indiana, but the NICTD was unable to confidently attain trackage rights on the Canadian National Railway line to Valparaiso. [5] By 2008 a new study indicated that the Valparaiso to Munster branch would not generate sufficient ridership and was dropped from the plan. [6]
The first railroad in town was the Chicago and Cincinnati Railroad Company constructed from Logansport to Valparaiso, Indiana, from 1858 through 1861. In 1865 it merged with the Chicago & Great Eastern Railway Company. Later, the line was purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The town had been called Brantwood, then changed to North Judson.
First installed in 2011, [7] there are eight different railroads, totaling 3,000 feet of track, [8] within the garden and up to nine different dioramas which tell the story of Railroads in the United States. [1] The garden railway has over 500 plants varietals and 850 tons of limestone. [8] The garden has a 14-foot elevation change and over ...
The line comprises 320 miles (510 km) of track—30 miles (48 km) of single mainline track, 24 miles (39 km) of double-main track and 266 miles (428 km) of additional yard and side track—starting northwest of Chicago in Franklin Park, Illinois at CPKC's Elgin Subdivision, traveling southeast around the city to its headquarters in Hammond, Indiana.
They were agents of the Underground Railroad," said Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen. Ahead of the walk, WJZ's Janay Reece was invited inside for a first look at the artifacts church members have ...
Valparaiso (/ ˌ v æ l p ə ˈ r eɪ z oʊ / VAL-pə-RAY-zoh), colloquially Valpo, is a city in and the county seat of Porter County, Indiana, United States. [4] The population was 34,151 at the 2020 census .