A CSX westbound arrives at Porter Jct from Grand Rapids and will now continue on to Chicago via Conrail. By the time I made it to Porter again the semaphores were long gone.
NS Dash 9 9715 highballs into Porter approaching Porter Junction.
After bending south away from Lake Michigan, the ex-NYC (now NS) corrects back east for a straight shot through Porter and Chesterton, IN.
In shiny new-looking paint, Amtrak NPCU 90218 leads the first Detroit/Pontiac-bound Amtrak of the day off the NS mainline and onto Amtrak territory.
Just off the line taking it through "lake effect snow" country, the tail end of the Wolverine has clearly been kicking up some snow recently. Today it's running about an hour late.
Flares 'n boxcars lit up at sunset crossing main 2 to 1 at Porter.
Amtrak's Pere Marquette heads into Porter Junction, inbound toward Chicago, during some January "lake effect" snow.
Amtrak train 350 jumps on the Amtrak Michigan City Branch at Porter Jct.
Conrail drags steel coils east from nearby mills.
Two baggage cars, 5 passenger cars, and umpteen materials handling cars. This is the old Pennsylvanian from Chicago to New York via Pittsburgh. This section has been discontinued, but you... (more)
A repainted ex CR Dash 8W leads a GATX leaser and a BNSF foreigner on a Eastbound grain train.
An ex-Conrail Dash-8 leads an early morning eastbound freight through Porter.
This was marked as Train 17 on the slide, but I'm not sure if that's right. Honeywell Pentax H1a; Agfachrome
Amtrak 154 was involved in an accident with a gravel truck less than 12 hours before
Former Conrail GP15-1 leads a local east through Porter
