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LAFAYETTE INDIANA - AMTRAK CARDINAL - HOOSIER STATE PASSENGER TRAINS
ABOVE LINKS ARE FOR MONON - RENSSELAER RECEIVER
BELOW LINKS ARE FOR THE LAFAYETTE - DELPHI - LOGANSPORT RECEIVER
LAFAYETTE INDIANA AREA - AMTRAK CARDINAL
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This site rebroadcasts land mobile channels off the air between Chicago and Indianapolis. All legacy channels 7-97 are in use in this area, and often duplicated by multiple railroads. For a list of what might be on the Lafayette scanner today, please refer to page 4.
AMTRAK CARDINAL PASSENGER TRAIN COMES THROUGH NORTHBOUND IN THE MORNING THREE DAYS A WEEK AND SOUTHBOUND IN THE EVENING
ON THE LAST PAGE IS A LINK TO A REAL TIME RADIO PROPAGATION PAGE
CHECK THIS TO SEE IF RADIO SIGNAL "SKIP" IS OCCURRING TODAY
BE SURE AND CHECK OUT THE MUSEUM AND RESTAURANT WHEN IN MONON - SEE LINK BELOW.
ONE PAGE BELOW IS FOR THE NS, ONE FOR THE CSX, AND THE THIRD IS FOR EVERYTHING ELSE.
NORFOLK SOUTHERN DELPHI TOWER - LAFAYETTE DISTRICT - DECATUR, ILLINOIS DISPATCHER FROM LAFAYETTE AND DELPHI BASES
NS 50 (352) Lafayette District Road and Decatur Dispatcher (former Wabash)
Coverage area is on the main line Lafayette-Dayton-Delphi-Logansport
also some Frankfort Branch and Yard activities
Radio coverage area is Peru, Logansport, Delphi, Lafayette, West Point, Attica.
Some radio traffic heard is also off the Frankfort Branch former (Big 4 - NKP), which accesses NS's south Yard and the Subaru factory. There is an occasional detector heard on the Frankfort Branch near Mulberry, Indiana. Six tracks of the South Yard are referred to as the "C" Yard. There are also "A-B-and C" Yards.
Normally times in use on the NS are from the central time zone.
The most relevent mileposts from west to east for the NS are:
300.4 Danville Jct (Crossing of CSX)
296.4 Eldan
293.1 Illinois-Indiana State Line
293.6 WIL Detector
288.2 Marshfield - 14,890' Siding
280.5 Williamsport Hot Box Detector -
276.6 Attica
274.2 Riverside 11,707' Siding
268.8 Flint Hotbox Detector
263.8 West Point - 12,575' Siding
257.9 Demun - Junction of Frankfort Branch to NS South Yard and Dayton
256.8 Lafayette Junction - CSX Monon Subdivision and KBS Interchanges - Double Cross Overs
254.9 Royer - Double Crossovers to Parallel Track
253.1 East Yard
250.3 East Yard Hotbox Detector
250.0 Buck Creek
244.0 Colburn - 12,700' Siding
241.4 Delphi
236.7 Delphi Hotbox Detector
233.9 Yuill - 8,375' Siding
232.2 Rockfield
225.0 Clymers Hotbox Detector
224.3 Clymers - 12,400' Siding
221.9 Penn
218.5 Logansport - Crossing TPW and WSRY
215.1 Danes
212.6 Sycamore - 12,800' Siding
209.5 New Waverly Hotbox Detector
204.5 West Peru
202.5 Peru
200.2 Junction Huntington District
At West Peru, the Huntington District Dispatcher takes over on channel 18 (923).
At Frankfort, the Frankfort Branch changes over to the old main channel, 22.
GO TO CSX ON THE NEXT PAGE
CSX MONON SUBDIVISION
LAFAYETTE, MONON, RENSSELAER
Channel 84 is the road channel. This is still the route of the Amtrak Cardinal passenger train. Dispatcher channel 12 may also be on the scan, depending upon traffic.
The Magnetation facility at Reynolds as of 2019 is defunct and reportedly will be demolished.
PTC went active on the Monon Subdivision in October 2018.
Effective January 18, 2018 the Elkhart & Western Railroad acquired the Monticello Branch, between Monon and Monticello. There is one customer remaining on that line.
The spur from Monon to Francisville continues to be CSX-owned and maintained.
This Class I railroad (former Monon- coded Q) times are generally based on eastern time in use at the Jacksonville. Dispatchers may or may not still identify as Calumet City. Some extra board shifts are still physically located at Calumet, while as of mid-2019 other shifts may be physically located at Jacksonville.
Relevent mileposts from north to south are:
DG 25.1 Thornton Junction (RB Dispatcher) - Interchange with Union Pacific
DG 31.1 Munster (RA Dispatcher)
Q27.9 Dyer Passenger Station (DYE)
Q29.1 CN Crossing (former EJ&E)
Q33.3 NS Crossing
Q36.8 Lowell Defect Detector
Q48.1 Shelby Siding North End - 10,965' Siding Built for the now-defunt Magnetation Plant
Q50.4 Shelby Siding South End
Q52.6 NS Crossing to Wheatfield Power Plant
Q54.1 Thayer Defect Detector
Q56.5 N End Roselawn - 4,495' Siding
Q57.7 S End Roselawn
Q67.1 N End Surrey - 4,330' Siding
Q68.1 S End Surrey
Q72.3 Rensselaer Passenger Station (REN)
Q73-73.8 Rensselaer Car Storage Track
Q75.7 Iriqouis River Defect Detector - 8 Watts
Pleasant Ridge
McCoysburg
Lee
Q86.2 North End West Pass - 9,335' Siding
Q87.3 South End West Pass
Q88.3 Monon - Monticello Branch - Elkhart and Western Railroad (eff. 1-18-18)
Q88.5 Monon - Medaryville Branch Line
Q92.8 Monon Defect Detector
Q95.1 North Reynolds Pass (Reynolds is the site of the defunct Magnetation Plant)
Q95.9 South Reynolds Pass - Storage Track - TP&W Crossing
Smithson
Chalmers
Q105.1 North End Brookston - 5,304' Siding
Q106.1 South End Brookston
Ash Grove
Q113.3 Battleground Defect Detector - 8 Watts
Q115.5 Lafayette Yard Limits (Farmers Crssing)
Sagamore Parkway
Q118.8 9th Street
Q119.4 Salem Street
Q120.1 Lafayette Passenger Station (LAF)
Q120.5 Lafayette Junction (NS and KBS Crossing - NS Controlled)
Q121.4 North End Lafayette Junction Siding(4,011 foot siding)
Q122.3 South End Lafayette Junction Siding
Q127.5 North End Switzer Siding (9,780 foot siding)
Q129.8 South End Switzer Siding
Q130.6 South Raub Defect Detector - 25 Watts
Q135.6 North End Linden Siding(6,795 foot siding)
Q136.8 South End Linden Siding
Q147.4 Crawfordsville Passenger Station
Q148.2 Junction Crawfordsville Branch (Amtrak Route to Indianapolis)
Q148.3 Elmore - Newly designated radio switching point between Indy and Cal City Dispatchers
Indianapolis dispatcher for the Crawfordsville Branch (Amtrak route) is channel 30(6) and the road channel is 46. It takes about an hour for Amtrak to traverse the Crawfordsville Branch from Clermont and around the Indianapolis Airport to Crawfordsville.
MORE RAILROAD INFORMATION ON THE NEXT PAGE
OTHER CHANNELS HEARD FROM TIME TO TIME
All of the original AAR channels are in use in this region. A good resource is the CARMA website (Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association).
More distant channels that may be added or subtracted from the scan from time to time, or may be heard depending on weather or radio tropo "skip" conditions. We often get stray signals from Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan, as well as regular dispatcher towers in Indiana and Illinois:
7 KBS ouf of Lafayette
8 CSX across northern Indiana (dispatcher on channel 84). Has been occasionally used by NS Crews in Lafayette.
12 CSX RB dispatcher on the Monon Subdivision. TP&W Tones up RB at Reynolds for transfers.
14 CSX Munster dispatching
16 CN Kirk Yard
18 NS Huntington Dispatcher east of Logansport (West Peru).
20 UP Villa Grove subdivision dispatcher north of Woodland Junction, former C&EI from Chicago and Dolton Yard to Watseka, Woodland and south. Some UP dispatching is also heard on channel 94.
28/30/32 CN south and east of Chicago. Much of this is former EJ&E. (30 is also the CSX between Crawfordsville and Indianapolis).
30 Also CSX dispatch on Crawfordsville line
34/46 Norfolk Southern. Chicago line Porter-Elkhart now channel 34. 46 is still used either side of this segment.
35 CSX Michigan line used by Pere Marquette.
39 NS Operations at South Yard and between Frankfort Yard and Dayton.
46 CSX road channel on Crawfordsville, also NS across northern Indiana, especially Elkhart terminal.
50 NS road between West Peru and Tolono. Also primary Lafayette NS dispatcher channel.
63 NS Kankakee Branch dispatching for coal train operations to the NIPSO power plant at Schneider. Dearborn often now handles the former Kankakee towers. NIPSCO is decomissioning this facility.
65 UP Villa Grove dispatcher south of Woodland Junction
66 BNSF Union Avenue Chicago, a powerful legacy former Santa Fe channel.
70 BNSF Aurora Road Channel in Illinois
72 CN New Orleans-Carbondale-Champaign-Kankakee Chicago (54 in some segments).
76 Sometimes heard for NS switching operations in Lafayette
84 Road channel on CSX Monon and Dispatcher on CSX Garrett.
86 TP&W Occasionally some short agricultural chemical trains passing through, and some windfarm turbines and blade arrival at the Hoosierlift facility. Transfer operations between Lafayette, Reynolds, and west.
92 NS Premier Corridor, B Line Ft. Wayne to Chicago.
93 Amtrak Michigan line from Porter to Niles, when band conditions are optimal
94 UP operations in Illinois
97 NS operations in Northern Indiana
NS crew activities in Lafayette sometimes take place on channels 8 39 76 and others. Most of the activity around Subaru and between Dayton and Frankfort is now on channel 39. Employees may use random unlicensed channels for private conversations.
If you are in the Monon area, check out the
Monon museum and whistle stop restaurant
north of Monon. http://www.mononconnection.com
THE AMTRAK CARDINAL
Hoosier State was discontinued July 1, 2019 due to the refusal of the state of Indiana to appropriate funding to support it. Equipment moves between Beech Grove shops and Chicago will no longer take place in Hoosier State trains.
Cardinal (51) runs northbound on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. Train 50 runs southbound on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
TROPOSPHERIC ENHANCEMENT
Things sometimes go nuts on the VHF radio due to weather conditions. We get a lot of signals off of temperature inversions (skip) caused by Lake Michigan, and when low pressure frontal systems move through the midwest. Tropospheric and sporadic-e transmissions may also be heard from time to time.
If you are interested in this, check this link. It is to the tropospheric activity maps generated from amateur radio packet transmission paths. This shows the 144 mhz. reception paths, which can routinely reach several hundred miles. While it is 20 mhz. elow the 161 mhz rail radio band, events that affects 144 often spread to 161. This page does not work well with some windows versions any longer, try firefox or some other browser.
Here is a link for a nearly real-time propagation map.
COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES ON THE CSX
The Monon Subdivision has communications installations at these locations. The are currently licenses for both analog and digital emissions at these sites, but only the analog licenses are being used.
Cedar Lake (Whitesville) - WNCE819 - 8 Watt Detector
St. John - WNCR - 45 Dispatcher - 4 channels
Shelby- WQUX390 - 30 Watt Dispatcher - 2 Channel
Lowell - WQUX390 - 25 Watt Dispatcher - 160.785
Thayer - KNGN838 - 25 watt detector
Parr - (North of Rensselaer) - KVM389 - 45 Watt Dispatcher - 3 Channels
Rensselaer - (Iriquois River) WNCE819 - 8 Watt Detector - A new digital voice here was installed 1-2017
Monon KXE633 - 60' Pole, 4 channels, 35/45 watt - Licensed on 10 14 45 and 84
KSF920 - 45' Pole at Depot - 2 channels, licensed 84 and 94
Reynolds - WQUX390 - 25 Watt Dispatcher - 160.785 - Channel 45
Battle Ground - WNCE819 - 8 watt detector
Lafayette - KEX475 - 75' TOWER AT YARD - 8 CHANNEL DISPATCHER, 7 40/45 WATT - ONE 75 WATT TRANSMITTER -Licensed channels are 12 14 16 24 45 71 84 88
South Raub - KNGN838 25 watt detector
Linden -WQSG792 - 90 FOOT DISPATCHER TOWER 45 WATT 3 CHANNEL
Crawfordsville -WPJP935 75 WATT (INDIANAPOLIS) DISPATCHER 3 CHANNEL
Lizton - WQKM658 - 6 Watt Detector