CSX NS Road and Dispatch

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Listen	Feed	Genre	Listeners	Player Selection	Links	Status
	CSX NS Road and Dispatch Carroll, Tippecanoe, White County Indiana NS/CSX Railroad Amtrak Cardinal 3x Weekly	Rail	4			Online

Feed Notes

PRIMARY CHANNEL 84

Monon Subdivision CSX Road 84 (161.37) mileposts 72.3-148.3 (Rensselaer to Elmore). Three detectors usually heard at 92.8, 113.3, and 130.6. A 4th one, the Rensselaer detector is rarely heard. Channel 84 is the Lafayette Yard main channel as well. Amtrak Cardinal train 51runs Monday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings, scheduled Lafayette at 7:37 AM. Cardinal train 50 into Lafayette around 10 PM, (hit or miss) on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Lafayette station is at MP 120.1. There is a rail fan camera just north of the Lafayette Amtrak station.

Shelby siding is north of Rensselaer (MP 48.2-50.3.

West pass siding is at Monon (MP 86.2-88.3

Switzer siding is south of Lafayette (MP 127.5-129.6.

Meets can take place at these three locations as well as at Brookston when that siding is not occupied by grain cars.

CSX RB Dispatch 12 - Dispatcher Channel for the Monon 160.29

Normally if Amtrak is in the area, we try to limit the scan and only channel 84 will be heard.

Secondary Channels:

NS Dispatch/Road 50 160.83 - Former Wabash and soon to be Union Pacific

NS Frankfort 160.86 Channel 39 160.695

TP&W Channel 86

Tertiary Channels:

CSX Crawfordsville Sub 30/46. IC Dispatcher / Road east of Elmore. Ch. 46 is also used by NS Road at Elkhart

Rarely there is a detector heard at mp 35.7 on the Crawfordsville Sub

Lafayette and Monon Yard channels + other outlying signals depending on "skip." In particular we may hear Elkhart on 46 from time to time.

Amtrak's Cardinal (Train 50 eastbound and Train 51 westbound) run 1145 miles between New York Penn Station and Chicago Union Station. There is a locomotive change at Washington, DC. Between Washington and New York, Siemens electrics are generally used on the northeast corridor. Diesel locomotives are employed between Chicago and Washington DC. Variously the locomotives will be Siemens Charger or GE Genesis. Shuttle leader between Indy and Chicago can also be one of Chicago's GE Dash 8 yard switchers, such as 514 or 517.

The first or last 244 miles are on the Northeast Corridor, which is mostly owned by Amtrak. Most of the remaining mileage is CSX, except for short segments of NS in Virginia and in CN/UP/NS in the Chicago complex. In a blue moon, UP dispatcher 48 can sometimes be heard here handling the Cardinal between Thornton Junction and Dolton. The short section of CN trackage is dispatched by CSX. NS is on channel 8 and there is generally a short span where channel 20 is used. As of December 2025 we are not aware of any stream coverage of the Cardinal in the Chicago area. There may be some limited coverage in Manassas, Virginia, and possibly in the Huntington, West Virginia region.

The Cardinal is unique, in that on certain days it serves as an equipment shuttle between Chicago and Indianapolis. On those days, there are deadhead cars, usually at the front of the train, with Indianapolis locomotives leading. Generally the conductor operates the radio on the Cardinal section, so you will hear both the engineer and the conductor calling signals.

In addition to this stream, Broadcastify has good coverage of the CSX Cardinal route under its Hancock and Marion County Indiana listings. Passage through this area is normally early AM for train 51, and after midnight for train 50. Verified December 2025. Subscription is required to listen to archives if you are not up all night. The Hancock County stream is excellent, in that it has a train length detector as well as axles. This confirms the info about the Cardinal before/after it's Beech Grove component.

in addition to the Lafayette camera, there is also coverage by camera in Chicago, which shows the 51 Cardinal if it is being turned on Amtrak's western eye.There may also be some middle ofthe night camera coverage in Covington, Kentucky, across the river from Cincinnati. We have not verified that possibility.

Sadly, Amtrak does not receive any financial support from the State of Indiana.