Norfolk Southern Chicago Railyards and Crew Assignments

Kelby Stroughter posted the questions:

Quick question for you guys in Chicago, IL. How many yards does NS have around the Chicago area? Also was wondering what crews run on the Chicago Line between Ft. Wayne and Chicago?

Larry Amaloo Landers [Wabash], Calumet [NKP], Ashland [NYC], 55th Street [Pennsy], Park Manor [NYC], Colehour [Pennsy] are the major NS terminals up here, most are intermodal terminals as well. The NS Crew districts are Toledo-Chicago, Elkhart-Chicago for Dearborn Division, Fort Wayne-Chicago, Bellevue-Chicago for Lake Division. Kankakee Yard and Burns Harbor Yard I do not think are grouped with the Chicago Yards.

Andrew Stephenson NS also has the vehicle mixing center in Hegeswisch. [I assume he means the IHB Gibson Yard that is shared by all of the Chicago trunk lines to switch autorack cars.]

Stan Stanovich ...Chicago has traditionally been an “away from home terminal!!!” Road crews run into Chicago from Toledo and Elkhart on the Chicago Line and Ft. Wayne and in certain cases Bellevue on the Nickel Plate! There is no road work which radiates out of Chicago on NS. Conrail was basically the same!!!