Chicago-bound passengers board a westbound South Shore train at Hammond. These rugged old interurban cars, more than fifty years old at the time, would soon be replaced.

A pair of Canadian Pacific SD40-2s lead a westbound intermodal train on Conrail's Chicago Line. Tom Golden photo.

CSS 805 (SD38-2) leads a westbound CSS train through Hammond, Indiana

Fresh from the paint booth, South Dakota Wheat Growers SW1 #865 awaits movement along the Indiana Harbor Belt for a transfer west to home rails. Tom Golden photo.

NKP 765 brings a few gondolas and passenger cars west for excursions in Chicago in June.

NKP 765 Passing the Last NKP Signals in Hammond after a Weekend in Chicago.

On a hot and hazy midwestern summer afternoon, the Monon crew has the cab door open for a breath of fresh air as their pair of Alco Century 420s approaches State Line Tower in Hammond, IN, with a ... (more)

Norfolk and Western 6206 heads up a freight as it hits the diamonds at Hohman Avenue in Hammond, IN in December of 1988. This train came thru moments after the train in photo 619932 cleared the di... (more)

Norfolk and Western caboose 518612 brings up the rear of a freight as it clears the diamonds at Hohman Avenue in Hammond, IN in December of 1988.

NS SD60I 6726 leads a intermodal west through Hammond, about to enter Colehour yard.

A former New York Central F7 with its old identity intact gets its face washed at Penn Central's Colehour Yard in Hammond, IN, on a summer afternoon.

EJ&E 663 brings a coal train out of the fog in Hammond, IN in March of 1985. Railfanning is hard when you can't see the train until it's 100 yards away!

Erie Railroad EMD F3(A) No.8051; renumbered by Erie-Lackawanna, original Erie number 805A. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed.

Amtrak 353 pauses at Hammond/Whiting to unload passengers before continuing to Chicago.

A Roger Puta Photograph