The inside of Dolton Tower is rarely quiet, an assortment of communication equipment keeps the operator busy when not routing trains through the interlocking.
A westbound IHB manifest pulls in to IHB's Blue Island Yard while IHB SW1500 1509 waits on the connection leading up to the CN.
A westbound IHB freight crosses Indiana Ave as it prepares to head into Blue Island yard.
IHB 1509 is on the rear of CN train 515 protecting the shove out of IHB Blue Island Yard.
Two remote-controllable GP15-1s sit in the morning sun on a Sunday. In the distance, UP 8449 and 8447 appear to be entering service for the UP.
Complete with a caboose and a FRED, the bottle train passes through busy Dolton Junction.
Early in the day, or late in the night as some may say, an IHB slug set sits crewless under a nice sky.
Shortly after arriving in Yard Center, a colorful consist of UP and foreign power rests. The diesels have been here less than an hour, and have already been turned off (I presume to conserve fuel... (more)
A C40-8W in Conrail paint accelerates after getting the signal to proceed through Dolton Junction.
A brand new stack of wheels (and a bird) warm in the morning sunshine.
An NS C40-9W running solo blast leads an auto parts train west on the IHB main.
Still in Conrail blue