Construction
Details
- Year Started
- 2021
- Year Completed
- In progress
- Project Elements
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- Commuter rail
- Freight rail
Overview
This electrified commuter rail capacity expansion project includes construction of new second mainline tracks and other rail infrastructure improvements within a 26.6-mile section of NICTD’s existing South Shore Line (SSL) between Gary and Michigan City in Indiana. Construction elements include a total of 16.9 miles of ballasted track, the removal of approximately two miles of embedded, in-street tracks from the roadway and reconstruction of the two tracks in a separate, parallel right-of-way in Michigan City, a new overhead contact system, four new railroad bridge structures over roadways and Class 1 railroads, new or modified railroad signals and associated control systems – including PTC systems, reconstruction of 14 at-grade crossings including new and modified grade crossing warning equipment, culvert replacements, retaining walls (wing walls, headwalls, and toe walls), passenger platform upgrades at five stations, and additional surface parking lots.