As sunset nears on April Fool's Day, a veteran Illinois Central switcher lets out some smoke as it leads the Whiting Local through East Chicago, IN.
Westbound South Shore interchange to the CSX at East Chicago rolls out its final mile passing Republic on the Barr Subdivision.
One of the last painted WC warriors waits for a fresh crew on a crisp cold day to continue serving the local industries in Northwest Indiana. WC 1565 is the last painted SW1500, with #3018 being t... (more)
Leased to Arcelor Mittal, GMTX 115 shuffles around a handful of scrap gondolas for interchange with the IHB along Dock Street.
Westbound empty coil train cuts through the Steel Mills of East Chicago on the very east end of the Indiana Harbor Belt.
As a Arcelor Mittal plant switcher brings a loaded coil train out to the Lakefront Yard, the eastbound bottle train is seen arriving from the Riverdale Plant with a high hood GP38-2.
Westbound bottle train for Arcelor Mittal plant in Riverdale leaves the steel mills of East Chicago behind as they start the short journey over the Indiana Harbor Belt.
NS GP38-2 5814 leads the westbound bottle train over the CSX diamonds at Calumet.
A pair of IHB SW1500s head light into Michigan Ave yard.
NS 9201 leads a stacker east along Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line and through East Chicago, In.
EJ&E 669 rolls east past the ArcelorMital plant in East Chicago, IN, just outside of a Norfolk Southern stack train's shadows.
A pair of IHB SW1500s lead a local west out of Michigan Avenue yard in East Chicago.
BNSF 8891 leads a unit coal train past Hick Tower and through the crossover at CP 503 on Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line.
Just outside the Mittal steel plant, a Harbor SW1500 does some switching.
A CSX SD50 and a grey ghost SD40-2 slowly head west through East Chicago.
