75th Street/Grand Crossing (75th Street & South Chicago Ave.) is a simple Metra flag stop (on hourly or better off-peak trains) with a small 2 to 3 car long wooden-high level island platform with two black white domed bus shelters for waiting passengers. This platform is in between the middle two tracks of the four track electrified Metra Line with two additional freight and Amtrak tracks to the east. A single staircase at the southern end of the platform leads down to a low-level platform area where trains could stop at one of the outside express tracks. Continuing south a white metal portal surrounds the one staircase off the platform down to the north sidewalk of 75th Street's underpass. Just west of the station 75th Street insects South Chicago Avenue (running at a diagonal, which crosses under the rail line south of the station) near the intersection of Woodlawn Avenue. Continuing south from the station the former New York Central (now owned by Norfolk Southern) railroad crosses above the Metra Electric (former IC) tracks at what was a grade crossing from 1853 until 1912 and is now elevated. This former crossing of two competing railroad lines gave the station and surrounding South Chicago neighborhood it's name of Grand Crossing. The Chicago Skyway runs just south and parallel to the New York Central Tracks.
Photos 16 September, 2016
63rd Street 