INDIANAPOLIS -- Train tracks that run within a block of Lucas Oil Stadium will be empty come Super Bowl Sunday.

As part of the overall public safety plan to reduce the possibility of a hazardous chemical incident or a terrorist threat, CSX has agreed to suspend operations three hours before the game until two hours afterward.

"(CSX is) going to monitor the rail line for us, east and west of downtown," said Deputy Chief Mike Bates, head of the Indianapolis division of Homeland Security. "On game day, we won't allow any rail traffic through prior to the game and after the game."

CSX maintains 2,700 miles of tracks throughout Indiana. Each year, 2.5 million freight cars traverse the state, many of them carrying flammable liquids and hazardous chemicals.

Beyond halting rail traffic before and after the game, the railroad will also conduct a rigorous inspection of rail cars at rail yards in Anderson and Avon.

"They'll have inspections of freight coming through the week prior to the game just to ensure that there's no hazardous material that is coming through that could be a threat," Bates said. "There will be train traffic through the week prior to the game, but it will be screened and CSX police officers will be monitoring that every day."

On game day, CSX police will take up positions along the railroad tracks along the downtown rail line. Local Super Bowl planners praised the railroad's effort.

"It's really one less thing we have to worry about, as far as the public safety side," Bates said. "They've got a great plan together and it will be a very good thing for us."