NS general freight runs south through realigned track at the Amtrak station, with the flooded Wabash River on the left and the old Big Four depot on the right.

A GE leads a stack train through the S curve near the Lafayette station.

In what can only be described as the perfect ending to a great day, CSX 8181 leads the J726 south out of Lafayette bound for the blades.

A Seaboard System southbound trundles down 5th Street in Lafayette, IN behind a matched set of four MP15-ACs. I think that engineer is smiling as he admires my old Corvair.

A Seaboard System Lafayette yard job rolls south down 5th Street behind two true diesel oddballs, a BQ23-7 and a U-18B.

Northbound 590 from Louisville, KY arrives at Lafayette on a very snowy January afternoon. We're standing on the Shadeland Rd bridge over the old Monon Route south of town. In the background is ... (more)

NS 181 flys through the S-curve on Thanksgiving Day.

A lone dash-9 leads 255 westbouund through the S-curve on Thanksgiving Day.

Amtrak's Train No. 317 - The Hooiser State - stops to board passengers in the middle of 5th Street at Lafayette.

The Floridian makes a station stop at Lafayette on the old Monon.

A nortbound Monon passenger train cruises up the 5th Street trackage in downtown Lafayette. Photo date is approximate. [From the collection of my grandfather, J.T. Childers I]

Having just crossed the Wabash River, an ex-Louisville & Nashville E8 leads Amtrak's Chicago to Miami 'South Wind' at Lafayette. The train is making an on time arrival at the Big Four depot, a ra... (more)

NS westbound 6783 35N at Lafayette Junction on the ex Wabash line bound for Decatur, Illinois.

Seaboard units sit at the ex L&N/Monon yards at Lafayette, IN

This one-of-a-kind engine is the last thing I thought I'd ever find in Lafayette on the connection between the KB&S and NS.