Single-Track, Bi-Level. On the evening of August 6, 2021, South Shore Line Train 119 with NICD 303 (Highliner II, Nippon Sharyo, 2008–2009) leading a four-car set was passing St. Mary the... (more)

A Pantograph on a Diesel?!? ¯\_(?)_/¯

Upon reviewing this photo of NICD GP38-2 1000, I discovered something interesting about this engine – a pantograph on the roof! Built b... (more)

A WB South Shore passenger train passes freight power as it approaches the Hegewisch station.

South Shore Saturday. Union Station in Gary, Indiana, a 111 year old Beaux-Arts Style building, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. It is in between and served th... (more)

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.

NICTD train #7 rumbles along 11th street at Michigan City.

South Shore freight heading west to Burns Harbor.

Two light engines make their way down 11th street in Michigan City on the Southshore on a dreary morning in northern Indiana.

A pair of South Shore Geeps, still wearing their as-delivered blue and yellow paint, bring a string of loaded steel coils through Hammond. Tom Golden photo.

South Shore train makes its stop on 11th Street in Michigan City.

South Shore light engine returns from Burns Harbor.

Toward the last several years of their service with the South Shore, a set of Pullman-built electrics make a stop at the Hammond Station prior to heading east toward South Bend. Tom Golden photo.

On a long abandoned industrial siding of the Walking Horse & Eastern sits this former Sante Fe Caboose. I know it's been here since at least 2006, and may have been here much longer. This was on... (more)

South Shore Freight power is heading west from Michigan City shops toward mills a little before sunrise.

The new station as of the date of the picture. The old station was in downtown South Bend. This station, located by the airport, eliminated much slow street running.