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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]
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 .
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.
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.
This outstanding Gothic Revival style church was constructed in 1891. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is now a condominium rebuilt in 2010 from its early twentieth-century roots. The Valparaiso High School is an elementary school. [1] The Washington Street area remains as one of Valparaiso's most cohesive and architecturally significant ...
The Indiana Railroad was created on July 2, 1930, when Midland Utilities purchased the Union Traction Company of Indiana (UTC) and transferred ownership to the IR. Union Traction (UTC) was the largest interurban system in Indiana with 410 miles (660 km) of interurban trackage and 44 miles (71 km) of streetcar lines in Anderson, Elwood, Marion and Muncie.
Northern Indiana Railroad: Western Indiana Railroad: C&EI: 1872 1872 Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Railroad: Western Indiana Railway: EJE: 1897 Chicago Heights and Northern Railway: White River Railway: 1901 White Water Railroad: NYC: 1878 1890 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway: White Water Valley Railroad: NYC: 1865 1878 ...
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]