IHB power waits for the next assignment at the IHB Blue Island Yard on a beautiful fall morning.

The day prior being my Senior Homecoming, I decided to look around the Riverdale and Blue Island area for some cool trains on a sunny evening to celebrate a successful homecoming. We got what woul... (more)

IHB 1501 one of the few remaining IHB SW1500's still in the orange livery waits for its next assignment at Blue Island Yard.

Z 149 pulls North on Thoroughfare 4 for headroom to shove back into CN INTL.

Chesapeake & Ohio EMD GP15T No. 1504 sits in Barr Yard in Riverdale, Illinois, on August 10, 1986. Only 28 GP15T’s were built and are the only GP15’s equipped with dynamic brakes—and C&O Nos... (more)

The end of the day is near at Blue Island Yard... recently IHB has been using foreign road power for yard pulldowns. CN 2501 and GEVO lead an east end pulldown at Blue Island Yard. It is hard to s... (more)

UP SD40N 1985 leads a transfer West into Blue Island yard.

On December 3, 1988, Baltimore & Ohio EMD SD9 No. 1836, dressed in colorful Chessie System colors, sits near the locomotive facility at Barr Yard in Riverdale, Illinois.

A former B&O GP40-2 is in charge of Y126 as it slowly makes its way down the Chicago Heights Subdivision, closing in on Barr Yard. The IHB was pretty busy with activity, but there was a lull long ... (more)

Indiana Harbor Belt caboose #31 is performing its shoving duties into Blue Island Yard for the 515 Job this afternoon. During better years, the stripes on this veteran caboose were a much nicer sh... (more)

The Chicago, Ft. Wayne & Eastern's road freight to Chicago rolls through Riverdale, Illinois as it makes its final approach into the IHB Blue Island Yard while the DPU of a CN freight rolls overhe... (more)

CSXT GP39-2 #4307 leads its train out of BWC Terminals in Riverdale. Once clear of the home signal, the crew will begin the shove move into Barr Yard. The 4307 was built for the Reading Railroad i... (more)

A meet occurs on the IHB in Riverdale as an eastbound IHB 515 Job meets the westbound CF&E road freight. Leading the 515 Job is an ES44AC that was recently purchased by the CN. It still wears its ... (more)

NS 5333 begins its trip in Riverdale as it leads a bottle train back to the Cleveland Cliffs mill in East Chicago

A former CITI Rail gevo leads a train on the IHB waiting for clearance to make its eventual move back onto the IC.