An NS GP60 awaits its next assignment at Colehour Yard.

A former Santa Fe caboose, IHB 75 brings up the rear of an eastbound locomotive move consisting of more than 15 new Boston & Maine GP40-2s. Built nearby at EMD's LaGrange (Illinois) plant, the ne... (more)

A pair of CSX SD50's hold out waiting for a crew to take them to their train on a nice summer evening.

A NS SD70, C40-9W, and SD70M lead coal empties east through Hammond on a bright sunny morning.

Auto racks for IHB Gibson Yard.

Having just rolled across the Illinois - Indiana state line, NS 7108 leads 4 bottles toward the steel mills in East Chicago.

A westbound Harbor train out of Gibson waits for its signal to proceed to Blue Island Yard.

The covered wagons head east through Hammond, passing under the Pennsy position lights.

An NS high nose GP38-2 is in charge of 6 ArcelorMittal bottles of molden metal rolling through Hammond Indiana on its way to the mill at Riverdale.

Conrail's Office Car Special heads south on the Kankakee Line and is just about to enter the Indiana Harbor Belt's Gibson Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Finally after many lost chances and opportunities, I get my chance to catch NS 8114, the Original NS heritage unit at Hammond leading an empty oil train westbound.

Southbound on the Egyptian line, an autorack unit train with a mix of Conrail and Santa Fe power traverses the connection with the IHB's mainline just east of Gibson Yard. Tom Golden photo

A CSX SD50-2 and CSX SD50-3 await a crew to pick up a coke train in Hammond Indiana near the Horseshoe Casino

Nearing the final destination of Gibson Yard, a very nice pair of elephant style BN Executive SD70MAC's head west on the approach to Hohman Avenue. This train came off the UP Villa Grove Sub in Do... (more)