24M rolls through the center siding in the industrial landscape of East Chicago.
CP trackage rights train 240-19 throttles up after clearing the Hick Tower drawbridge. Anyone who has railfanned CP lately will appreciate the clean, standard cab power.
Psychologists say you shouldn't keep things bottled up inside.
Returning to Bailey Mine from Wisconsin Electric's Pleasant Prairie Power Plant in Waukegan, IL.
A South Chicago & Indiana Harbor Railway Company train rolls over NS trackage rights to interchange. The units are still lettered for Chicago Short Line and apparently RP.net doesn't recognize th... (more)
A loaded ethanol train pounds the bridge at Hick Tower.
Not a bad place to ride around the steel mill in the summer but not so sure I would want to be on this in January with the wind whipping down Lake Michigan.
As the 1,000-foot M/V Indiana Harbor prepares to dock at its namesake port a SW1200 handles a short cut of hoppers loaded with coke coal. The Indiana Harbor will unload 70,000 tons of Minnesota ir... (more)
There is lots to see in this view of a former Republic Steel blast furnace now operated by ArcelorMittal. On the left raw materials including iron ore and coke are delivered to the furnace while m... (more)
One of ArcelorMittal's many switch engines shoves a train of a molten steel bottle cars inside the large Indiana Harbor mill complex (formerly Inland Steel).
A Westbound IHB transfer with an SD20 and GP40-2 combo are about to roll across the diamonds at Calumet City.
Inside ArcelorMittal's sprawling former Inland Steel mill complex a SW1001 shoves a string of bottle cars filled with glowing molten steel.
SOO 6024 and a string of auto racks roll along the IHB and towards Gibson yard in East Chicago, IN.
CSX 7550 thunders east along CSXT's Barr Subdivision and under the Indiana Toll Road in East Chicago, IN.
CSXT 533 leads a westbound stacker along the Barr Subdivision and through East Chicago. IN.