BHS 200 switching on the West Dock

CSX 911, the First Responders unit, leads M368 East through Portage.

A westbound Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad freight, loaded mostly with heavy steel coils, is about to cross the grade crossing entrance to National Steel at Portage, Indiana, on the aft... (more)

South Shore Line #118, heading to Chicago, approaches the Portage/Ogden Dunes station. Car 36 is one of 8 cars in the South Shore fleet that is owned by Metra. In the 1980's the RTA contributed so... (more)

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)