Lightning looks purple when there's heavy rain between you and it.
You know what do when YOU see this... That's right, Duck And Cover. Unexpectedly fast plow train clearing Hennepin branch.
Inspection train on former B&O Indy-Cincy line. These semaphores came down within the next week.
Empties charging uphill past "Railfan Rock" at the peak of fall colors.
Neat A-B-B set of BN GE's leading a stack train.
Two-month-old SD75M -- my favorite! -- blazes westward during a heat wave that killed many people in Chicago, less than 100 miles away.
Conrail's Lafayette turn pulling out of the Wabash River valley after the first snow of the season.
Classic Taconite Harbor view, with a boat ready to take the load. Note the water spray in the distance unsuccessfully trying to quell the dust cloud from this load of "fines".
Sweet fancy Moses, I miss this railroad.
LTV 4211 leads leased GEs on the uphill charge with empties.
Five F's and a Geep prepare to descend to Taconite Harbor. It seemed you could almost set your watch by the schedule these trains ran on!
Amtrak's southbound "Hoosier State" near sunset.
Operation Lifesaver special round-trip from Indianapolis to Lafayette, half on CSX trackage rights.
Spring has sprung on the old Indiana Sub between Cincinnati and St. Louis.
Three South Shore units leased by IC lead 206(!) empty coal hoppers southward.
