It's Eclipse Day in Vincennes Indiana as grain train one of 7 trains we would see while waiting for the eclipse

It's Eclipse Day in Vincennes Indiana as CSXT M648 rolls through town. A parking area behind the McDonalds made for the perfect spot to wait taking in trains whilst waiting.

Wrecked Amtrak P42 9 sits outside the shop at Beech Grove.

Wrecked Amtrak P42 28 sits outside the shop at Beech Grove.

GTW 4616 and CN 5341 head back to Kirk Yard after working at the Port of Chicago earlier in the day.

Many wrecked/dead Amtrak P42s sit outside the shop at Beech Grove. Amtrak heritage units 66 and 156, both of which are wrecked, as well as Veterans unit 42 are included in the group.

A pair of INRD's new SD70Ms lead SAHW West through Bargersville.

After climbing Duncan Hill 18E hustles through Georgetown

NS 18E after meeting a pusher starts it's way westward off the K&I bridge from Louisville. No whistle zone here.

CSX SD70AC 4704 leads M687 south as it races for Louisville.

It has been about 20 years since I was last here. 168 starts for Duncan Hill departing from Louisville.

Norfolk Southern 21st Century Steam program's The Commodore Vanderbilt Employee Special passes through Dunlap, IN on its way east to Bryan, OH and return to Elkhart.

NS 8173 leads a intermodal West through Pine Junction.

CN GP40-2LW 9615 leads CN L512 East through East Chicago.

Growing up in the Appalachians I thought you had to have hills to have coal mines. Southwest Indiana isn't like that. Mostly it's flat, much of it is wasteland, covered with half-grown timber, s... (more)