SW8 #11 is keeping busy this morning at Cleveland Cliffs in Riverdale, transporting ladle oxygenation cars back and forth between the basic oxygen furnances.
IHB 3801 and IHB 3800 waits for the next assignment at the IHB Blue Island Yard.
CSX GP38-2 2047 switches out a industry in Rivderdale.
L536 is exiting Chicago city limits and entering Riverdale, IL as it crosses the Little Calumet River on its way south. A pair of IC SD70's are right at home on the old Mainline of Mid America.
The Leader Of The Pack. It was a long day for the crew that worked the transfer job from East Chicago to Blue Island on Indiana Harbor Belt 3861 (SD38-2) and 3801 (GP38-2) on January 31, 20... (more)
A Cleveland-Cliffs (SW8?) is seen pulling a pair of ladle transfer cars at the Riverdale plant.
A CSX freight, led by EMD GP15T No. 1515, works out of Dolton at Riverdale, Illinois, on the afternoon of March 19, 1988.
A South Shore detour crosses the Little Calumet River on the IC main line headed for Matteson, Griffith and back to the South Shore at Stillwell.
A CN to IHB transfer drops down the hill from the old Illinois Central Main before shoving back into Blue Island yard.
A string of CSX locomotives rest underneath a relic from a different age on the afternoon of March 19, 1988. This imposing concrete coaling tower that once loaded steam locomotive tenders with fue... (more)
IHB 4019 rolls past while working the east end of Blue Island Yard still sporting the old IHB livery.
IHB 1514 and 1504 waits for the next assignment at the IHB Blue Island Yard.
Ohio Central SD40-2 4023 leads CF&E FWCH WEst through Riverdale.
MiHB GP40-2LW 4020 leads a transfer to Yard Center East through Riverdale.
A pair of Conrail EMD SD50s power CR’s Elkhart, Indiana, to Illinois Central’s Markham Yard (ELIC) freight onto the IC at Riverdale, Illinois, on December 3, 1988.
