Chicago Area Railroads
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Monitoring Chicago-area railroad transmissions; included are BNSF, CN, Metra & UP. Cook & DuPage counties. Updated FEB25.

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Update February 2025: Updated scanning software and added new frequencies.

This feed expands the coverage of Northern Illinois Railroads into DuPage & Cook counties as well as Chicago operations.

Feed frequencies:

  • 160.485 - UP Road Milwaukee Subdivision
  • 160.575 - UP Global 1 and 2 and Proviso Yards
  • 160.725 - UP Proviso Yard
  • 160.755 - CN Road Freeport Subdivision
  • 160.890 - UP Road Geneva Subdivision and Metra West Line
  • 160.920 - CN Road Freeport Subdivision
  • 161.040 - UP Road Geneva-Kenosha-Milwaukee Subdivisions
  • 161.100 - BNSF Road Aurora and Chicago Subdivisions
  • 161.175 - UP Proviso and West Chicago Yards
  • 161.190 - CN Chicago and Freeport Subdivisions

 

Feed Info:

The feed's receiver is located in Lombard (using a Laird 156-162mhz antenna (FG1560), streaming from a Raspberry Pi 4 and an SDR), along Union Pacific's Geneva Subdivision, which was Chicago's very first railroad line!

Please use the form to submit feedback - happy to add more frequencies and/or make corrections.

Online since April 2021. Last updated February 2025.