One word: Class.
The South Shore Freight heads southeast from Michigan City for La Porte and Dillon on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Here it is seen just north of the NS diamonds at La Porte waiting for a signal.
The South Shore freight employees have a much higher work load today digging out all the switches after receiving almost two feet of snow.
South Shore 2002 pauses with a local on the South Shore main. In a few minutes a westbound electric is going to come flying through and the train needs to get in the clear.
A pair of South Shore geeps switch a spur by Mittal Steel.
A rare SouthShore Freight run to the BRC heads through Ogden Dunes with four boxcars of GAF shingles.
A quartet of the ever elusive South Shore GP's head back East toward Michigan City.