A Michigan service train starts thru the curves in Hammond.

CP 8851's maiden run brings her through Indiana in the lead of 33T bound for CP's Bensenville Yard.

Amtrak waits on Main 1 for the eastbound manifest on Main 2 to finish crossing over. The manifest was running wrong main due to track maintainance.

The elusive (atleast the western portion of the trip) NS OCS cruises through Whiting, IN under the modified Pennsy Position Lights.

One of the very few remaining CSX C40s in stealth paint sits on the point of a coke train in Whiting.

A frigid dawn finds primer gray NS 9874 leading a mixed freight east away from Chicago.

This CSX SD40 still has one Seaboard-style number board.

A Chicago bound NS train navigates the S curve in Hammond as the tracks shift from the old New York Central alignment to the Pennsy alignment.

The Chicago Short Line (now South Chicago and Indiana Harbor) is arguably the most difficult railroad in the Chicago area to catch in action. Here one of four units on the roster leads a transfer ... (more)

A light power set of 3 SD38s heads to Kirk Yard after dropping off a coal train at the State Line power plant.

A high hood geep 38 brings a cut of tank cars from the BP Amoco refinery back toward the yard in Hammond.

A former CR SD50 and CEFX grey ghost SD40-2 idle away along the NS Chicago Line and EJ&E Lake Front Line.

A trio of NS locos, a C40-9W, SD60, and GP38-2 high hood, roll off the old NYC drawbridge and past the CP Hick tower. The abandoned B&O bridge is on the left, the Pennsy on the right.

One of IHB's GP38-2s works very hard to lug a long string of loaded steel coils out of the Inland Steel plant and down the IHB. The Inland plant is in the background.

A shiny new CP GEVo comes off the drawbridge and leads its train under these old Conrail signals as it heads East past the Inland Steel plant.