An IHB SW1500 switches autoracks at the IHB Gibson Yard as the moon rises in the eastern sky.
A four-unit NS consist (3 Dash 9s and a GEVO) idles on a connector track between the Indiana Harbor's Belt Kankakee Line and NS's ex-Nickel Plate mainline.
An IHB transfer heads west passing the old Hohman Ave. tower with a mix of pool power from CN and NS.
An unit ethanol train for the BRC cruises through Stateline behind a former CR GE and one of the first SD70ACe's manufactured.
CSS 2001 and 2006 running as CSXT foriegn train Z502 cruise back east toward home rails as CSXT J765 approaches Stateline.
This glinty high hooded SOU unit sits idle in the yard.
Part of the same group of locomotives built for Russia but were embargoed and ended up on the Milwaukee and here on the South Shore. It is my understanding these were not referred to as "Little Jo... (more)
After coasting to almost a full stop an inbound Chicago Amtrak train has just cleared and this E/B NS stack with BNSF motors hammers on the throttle and heads east with their train.
An IHB freight sits crewless just west of the Hohman Avenue diamonds with the NS.
NS steam special from Calumet Yard to Ft. Wayne about to rock the IHB diamonds at Hohman interlocking.
NW 1218 has a high green at Hammond for an eastward move over the old Nickel Plate at Hohman Ave. enroute to Ft. Wayne.
I'm standing in Illinois shooting a picture of a train in Indiana. State Line Tower is history.
Bensenville bound manifest rolls under the CPLs in Hammond.
NS's beautiful A-B-A set of F units throttle down through downtown Hammond, IN, passing a vintage NKP fork style signal enroute to Fort Wayne and eventaully Georgia.
