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BELT RAILWAY OF CHICAGO

Main yard is Clearing Yard. The east end of the yard is reached from 65th Street. The west end of the yard can be reached via the 59th St. Branch, diverging from the Main Line at 55th Street.

Radio Frequency (Dispatcher-North) - 160.635 (AAR Channel 35)

Radio Frequency (Dispatcher-South) - 160.500 (AAR Channel 26)

Stations

Direction is southward from Cragin to Pullman Jct.

Cragin (junction - CP/remote-Tower A-5)
Augusta Boulevard (connection - UP)
14th Street (connection - CSX)
22nd Street (connection - Manufacturer's Junction)
Hawthorne Connection (connection - BNSF)
Hawthorne (crossing - IC)
Nerska (crossing - BNSF)
Lemoyne (crossing - IC)
55th Street (junction - Clearing Yard)
65th Street (junction - Clearing Yard)
Hayford (crossing - CN)
Forest Hill (crossing - CSX)
Belt Junction (junction - Metra)
80th Street (junction - UP)
Pullman Jct. (junction - NS)
Rock Island Jct.

Cragin to 55th St. - 2 tracks, CTC in use, controlled by North Dispatcher.

55th St. to Hayford - 2 tracks, signalled for normal right hand operation.

Hayford to Rock Island Jct. - 2 tracks, CTC in use, controlled by South Dispatcher.

59th St. Branch - 2 tracks, CTC in use, controlled by North Dispatcher.

TRACK DIAGRAM

All main tracks are shown, along with most switches within interlockings, and other tracks used by main line freight trains. Not shown are hand operated industrial switches.

Information is subject to change, and is based on information from the CORA (Chicago Operating Rules Association) guide dated 2001, along with some observations, and Google satellite imagery.

The following colors are used to indicate types of operation:
BLUE - manual interlocking
RED - centralized traffic control (CTC) or bidirectional signals
GREEN - automatic block signals (single direction, current of traffic)
BLACK - unsignaled

Thin lines across tracks indicate signals. In CTC or bidirectional signal territory, signals usually exist for both directions at all locations, except at interlockings where the signals usually are only in the direction entering the interlocking.