The road freight for the Indiana Rail Road rolls south through Bargersville on its way to Hiawatha Yard in Jasonville. The intermodal traffic on the head end means it will make a detour to Palesti... (more)

An Indiana Railroad coal train is being loaded at Peabody Energy's Bear Run coal mine located near Dugger, IN. In the background is a Bucyrus-Erie 2750W dragline from Peabody Energy's former Hawth... (more)

INRD 9009 leads a train on CP tracks in Caledonia on a brisk day in February of 2013.

Indiana Rail Road's HWSA proceeds northbound across the impressive 2,295 foot long, 157 foot tall Tulip Viaduct. Completed in 1906, this structure still sees multiple INRD movements every day and... (more)

An Indiana Railroad SD9043MAC leads a southbound CP freight out of St. Paul. This was my first encounter with an INRD unit, both of us far from our normal operating territories.

Another strange appearance of a lone Indy MAC leading a CP manifest! CP 3-298 drifts downhill on the Brookfield hill with a short train.

A lone Indy MAC is large and in charge of 288 as it approaches Cooney Siding, just east of the rural community of Ixonia.

The classy looking INRD MACs haul a CP freight as Milwaukee looms in the background.

INRD SD9043MAC 9009 leads 281 east through Elmwood Park. It seems CP has kept a pair of INRDs captive on 281/284 for a while now!

INRD 9009 and INRD 9001 thunder east through suburban Elmwood Park.

As a smokin' IC&E SD40-2 shoves cars back to the intermodal ramp of Bensenville Yard, 281's pair of INRD's await the arrival of the conductor, before departing.

CP 281 departs Bensenville Yard, headed east towards A-5 and a trip to St. Paul. A pair of the ever attractive Indiana Railroad SD9043MAC's have the honors on this perfect morning.

Rising more than 150 ft above the valley, two Indiana Rail Road MACs are leading 50 loads of coal over the near 2,300 ft long Tulip Trestle. The train loaded at Triad, located just west of Switz C... (more)

As the sun finds the perfect sucker hole in the clouds, INRD 9009 and 9010 bring their coke train into Galewood Yard to receive a fresh crew.

After several hours of delays between Barr Yard and Yard Center, CSX's handling of INRD's run-thru Coke train from Minnesota heads south down former C&EI rails at my namesake town.