Uncommon flatcar loads are heading west through La Porte Indiana. Photo by Jeff Stupar.

Unusual flatcar loads are west bound at La Porte Indiana. The tenders are lettered Virginia Central. Photo by Jeff Stupar.

NS 7591 leads a manifest freight east through downtown La Porte Indiana, at milepost 463 on the Chicago Line. Photo by Jeff Stupar.

NS 6953 leads a hotshot intermodal past CP 462 and west through downtown La Porte on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

NS 6775 and a mixed freight speed past CP 462 and west through downtown La Porte on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

UP and CP power lead an auto rack train west along Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line as GEORGE M. STUPAR grabs his shot.

NS 6775 (ex Conrail 5522) leads a mixed freight west through La Porte Indiana, at CP 462 on the Chicago Line.

An EMD SD60E leads a fast intermodal west through La Porte Indiana, at CP 462 on the Chicago Line.

As the sun sets over an icy Indiana landscape at 5:14 p.m. on February 25, 1990, an eastbound Conrail freight heads toward Elkhart Yard passing through a wintery La Porte.

Hustling west on the main at maximum allowable track speed.

WC 6624 is about to hammer the ex-Nickel Plate diamond in La Porte, IN in November of 1999. Foreign power was very common on this portion of Conrail/NS.

CP 8541 leads a manifest west along Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line and through La Porte, IN after one of 2014's many snowstorms.

Amtrak’s westbound Lake Shore Limited flies past milepost 460 east of La Porte, Indiana, on October 22, 1989. Three EMD F40PHs race the 18-car train toward Chicago on Conrail’s busy main line ... (more)

NS 2567 leads a westbound string of containers along Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line and through La Porte, IN.

NS 8768 leads an intermodal train west along Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line and past CP 466.