The Gary/Chicago Airport (also known as Clark Road) Station is located approximately 1.5 mile south of the airport terminal, with no shuttle service partially because the Gary Airport lacks commercial air service as of 2017 with Allegiant Airlines last serving the airport in 2013. It is a simple flag stop on the South Shore Line with some rush hour trains skipping the station (in addition to the once daily, South Bend Sunrise/Sunset Express). The station has the lowest ridership of any South Shore Line Station, there was previously another flag stop between Clark Road and Gary Metro Center, Ambridge, which closed along with 6 other flagstops on July 5, 1994 to speed up service.
The station has a single low-level side platform on the north side of the two-track line that begins at the grade-crossing of Clark Road and runs west. Trains stop on both tracks (as a hold-out station) with a small concrete boarding area across the south track to the north, normal South Bend-bound track. On these trains two sets of doors open, one to the small pedestrian crossing boarding area and the other directly to the grade-crossing of Clark Road. The platform contains a single green shelter that houses a strobe light with instructions to activate to signal the engineer to stop (along with remaining visibly on the platform), along with credit card TVMs. The station is located in a residential neighborhood and has a small parking lot between the platform and parallel South Bend Avenue, with Porter Street split in two by the station (it lacks a grade-crossing). 2nd Avenue runs across the tracks from the station.
All Photos taken on 30 December, 2017
