IC 1497 continues its run up the lakefront line with a load of coke while the Arcelor Mittal switchers brings a load of coil cars out of the East Chicago Arcelor Mittal mill.
Power for the CP G44 rolls back into the yard to retrieve another cut of cars to take back to former CC&P Hawthorne Yard.
A look at the lakefront from East Chicago shows an impressive view of Lake Michigan while a rare IC SW14 brings in a coke train for the Arcelor Mittal Steel plant.
This scene just works for me: the Illinois Central and a farm. I only wish the chances for shots like this weren't fading away so fast.
Illinois Central 1518 sits with its short train on display on the riverfront in Paducah.
The late evening sun is about to go behind the hill but I managed to grab a shot of the 15:30 PRS backing down to the Lakehead Storage with a cut of empty cars.
The foreman rides the shove towards the other elevator on the Old Town Transfer.
Holding in the yard near Garfield Avenue.
Rust slowly takes over an IC caboose which spends much of its time on a siding in the yard.
IC 6263 and DMIR 400 are two of 14 units stored at the former DM&IR shops in Proctor, Minnesota. These roundhouse stalls saw active steam until the early 1960s.
Evidence of two mergers sits in the summer sun in Waukegan.
Yard power moves a cut of tanker cars.
An old IC GP40R leads SOO 4424 and WC 3024 on a CN transfer from CP Bensenville Yard back to CN Hawthorne Yard on a cool fall day.
A pair of IC EMD switchers await their next work at Memphis, TN in June 1976.
A view of the CN deadline back in August 2006 shows an interesting view of retired locomotives awaiting sale or scrapping.
