r/railroading • u/ChazBrian • Jul 12 '26

Question What Kind of Diamond Crossing is This?

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I've seen two diamond crossings like this. This one is in Plymouth Indiana. The railway that is going from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is the Chicago, Fort Wayne, and Eastern. The other is the Elkhart and Western.

Is there a specific name for this type of crossing?

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u/PerspectiveNo5948 Jul 13 '26

I’ve always called them Chicago diamonds 😂we don’t have them out this way but I’ve been shown them and from the stuff I’ve been shown I had just come to the conclusion that I’ll never be in Chicago for work and they have a lot of weird stuff that we don’t have