Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad (NICTD)
Randolph Street Station (Metra)
Deep in the heart of Chicago, between Michigan Ave and Lakeshore Drive, lies the West end
of the South Shore Railroad. There are three platforms serving five tracks at this station,
which is just East of the Metra Electric terminus at Randolph St.
Left to Right - Track 12, Track 11, and Track 10 (at other platform)
Track 9 and Track 8 - Track 9 is served by two platforms. (In 1989 NICTD leased a METRA low
floor diesel double decker train set and ran one trip per day each way on the South Shore as
an express. Track 8 was its home during the day. The METRA train was replaced with standard
South Shore cars when the trailers were added to the rolling stock in 1992. Metra Electric
double deckers could not be used, as they are high floor and at the time there were no
high level platforms east of Kensington.)
South Shore train crew use this small building at the end of Track 8 for their breaks.
The tracks going down into the Randolph Street METRA Station - designed to avoid conflicts
during the rush hours when trains are scheduled to arrive or depart the six METRA platforms
nearly every minute. (32 arrivals in 2 hrs, some scheduled at the same minute, plus trains
leaving for the Roosevelt Road Yard to make room for new arrivals. This load, with South
Shore trains mixed in, runs on three tracks from Randolph Street to Roosevelt Road, then
four tracks - express and local - to Kensington.)
These signs are located at every South Shore station - they have raised features to help the
site impared.
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