SCIH 31, an original Chicago Short Line SW1500, pulls a short train out of ArcelorMittal as it passes the BP Whiting Refinery. The CSL was founded in 1900 and operated until 2003 when they got a n... (more)

IHB 2923 leads a pulldown out of IHB's Blue Island Yard. The 2923 is one of three SD20's left on the IHB roster and has been confirmed as being retired as soon as IHB's new four axles arrive.

IHB 2920 smokes it up on an IHB-UP transfer south through Dolton, Illinois. To the left is a Mopac vader and to the right is some Mopac codeline. IHB 2920 is one of three SD20's left on the IHB ro... (more)

WLE 389 (Loaded coke) cools the jets as it prepares to enter Brewster Yard. While doing so they cross the RJ Corman diamond and the old B&O CPL that guards it. Here you can see one of the very coo... (more)

Where can you find GP35's in 2020 leading loaded coke trains on the main? The Wheeling & Lake Erie, that's where! WE 389, a coke train for the Cleveland area, comes screaming around a sweeping cur... (more)

The Rio Grande lives! It's 2020 and the WLE still has 4 units still in Rio Grande paint. Here we see one of them, the WE 303, leading a tank train curving into Sandyville, Ohio.

The BLE duo heads south through Branchton under the BLE signal bridge. At this point I had been battling food poisoning all day long but got the specific shot I wanted on the trip!

IC 1028 leads a trio of IC SD70's under the BLE cantilever at Kelsey, Pa.

It's 2020 and you wouldn't be able to tell that the CN bought the BLE years ago based off of this. Here we see BLE 878 and 867 pulling L518 south out of Greenville passing the old searchlights and... (more)

The steel city is rocking and rolling as URR 14 pulls a manifest freight down past Edgar Thomson in Braddock, Pa. To the right of the picture is ET. The bridge that drops down is the connection to... (more)

Steel has always been Pittsburgh's big claim to fame and the Union RR is one of the staples. Here we see URR 18 leading the morning slabs through Dravosburg. The slabs come from Edgar Thomson Stee... (more)

SCIH 31 passes the constant activity hive of the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond. In the background is the Amtrak Station along with Whiting and Hammond.

SCIH 31 works its way west out of the mills as it approaches one of the newer NWI attractions, the Mascot Hall Of Fame.

SCIH 31 pulls out of the west end of ArcelorMittal in Whiting as the snow falls down on NWI. In the background along Lake Michigan is where the midwest's finest steel is made.

LIRC 2301 backs its train onto the branch that leads to Camp Atterbury. The connection from the main to the branch goes right through the Kokomo Grain in Edinburgh.