Another major steel mill in Northwest Indiana is the Gary Works, located just off of Lake Michigan in Gary. A pair of their remote control switch locomotives prepare to go to work on a sunny morni... (more)

CSS 2004 sits in Gary at Goff waiting for a crew to take the train east. The bridge in the background is the abandoned IHB branch to Burns Harbor.

A pair of J SD38-2s work a Kirk Yard pulldown in Gary.

EJ&E SD38-2 663 leads a pulldown out of Kirk for headroom.

Still flying flags for the 4th, NS 9899 leads a westbound hotshot past Pine Junction.

A quartet of South Shore GP38-2's lead PF-9 westbound passed the Gary/Chicago Airport Station on a humid evening in Gary, Indiana. The train is headed for the south side of Chicago.

Four South Shore geeps lead a BRC-bound manifest west through Miller.

This is about as good as it gets on CN these days, at least around Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana. A pair of EJ&E SD38-2's find the sun as they shove a massive cut of cars into Kirk Yard. No CN... (more)

IC SD70 1033 leads L537 west out of Kirk Yard.

CSX SD40-2, 8134 leads K182 west down the City Track at Pine Junction.

CSX SD40-3 4007 leads Q565 west through Pine Junction.

CN SD70M-2 8828 departs Kirk yard with a westbound manifest.

NS 21Z rounds the bend through the Buffington Harbor neighborhood of Gary. Leading the train is NS 8099, the Southern heritage unit. To the left are the final remains of Universal Atlas cement pla... (more)

NS 1046 leads a slop freight east to Elkhart from Chicago.

The Mikado, not the Berk. Forget about the NKP, the older Mikado type (2-8-2) locomotive 765 was built by Baldwin for the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway in 1929, predating its later numbered cous... (more)