NS 9775 leads a mixed freight past the new signal on the CSX Porter Branch at Willow Creek.

UP 8707 Westbound through the CSX diamond in Portage Indiana on a Sunday afternoon

CSXT 8804 leads a intermodal train through Portage Indiana.

Syracuse, NY - Bedford Park, IL Q163 rolls west through Willow Creek (Portage, IN) on the CSX Garrett Sub. Leading the way is CSX 8833, a former Conrail SD40-2.

UP 6706 is one of few units left in the whole country that bear CNW paint, let alone the UP railroad where you could count them on a single hand. Here it leads CSX Q191 west on the Garrett Sub at ... (more)

BNSF 5461 slams across the CSXT Porter Branch diamond as it leads its train east on the former B&O Garrett Sub.

An EMD NW2 and a friendly wave, in 1973. The train is westbound on the Michigan Central Porter Branch. Photo taken from inside the interlocking tower through an open window.

A westbound rolls past Willow Creek tower on the Michigan Central Porter Branch in 1978.

An NS GP60 leads a light power move towards Burns Harbor to pick up cars of coil steel from Acelor Mittal.

Locomotives:
NS 7144 GP60
NS 3070 GP40-2

This shot was taken around 1969 or 1970, shortly after the transition from NYC to PC. The view is looking east on the Michigan Central Porter Branch, with the N&W ex Wabash 4th District crossing i... (more)

A manifest freight rolls east through Willow Creek Junction on the Michigan Central (NYC) Porter Branch in 1979. The street crossing is Willow Creek Road and the rail crossing is the former Baltim... (more)

Photo was taken through an open window from inside the interlocking tower in 1979. The westbound train is passing through Willow Creek Junction on the Garrett Subdivision. I thought the old B&O ca... (more)

A two-car set of the South Shore's classic Pullman heavyweight interurbans from 1927 hums along under the wires near Portage, IN, on its way to South Bend. Conrail's former NYC mainline is in the ... (more)

CSXT 290 leads a fast intermodal on the former B&O Garrett Subdivision just east of Willow Creek Junction in Portage Indiana.

CSX 8457 hammers the Conrail diamond at Willow Creek Road in Portage, IN in August of 1996. 8457 was rebuilt from a SD40 and the CSX line is now double track.