Peace at CP 502 is broken by a morning bottle train to ArcelorMittal. Leading the train is NS 5809, a rebuilt GP50. The NS bottle trains are exclusive to NWI but soon the contract will be going to... (more)

ArcelorMittal GP15-1's 417 and 418 are pulling for all they're worth as they bring a heavy train of pet coke into the East Chicago plant. As the train winds its way into the plant, the rear can be... (more)

The Chicago skyline stands tall 23 miles away as ArcelorMittal SW1500 #111, one of the many locomotives on the #1 leader in steel's roster, shoves a bottle train into the massive East Chicago plan... (more)

CP 7021 leads CSX V101 west over the Grand Calumet River in East Chicago, Indiana. 7021 is one of five special military units the CP released in 2019.

Shot from the steps of Grasselli Tower, an IHB Power Booster and GP38-2 head north along the Kankakee Line. Grasselli Tower would be moved in 2007 to the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum and refurb... (more)

The ArcelorMittal owns quite the collection of switch locomotives. SW1500 #304 leads a "bottle train" out of the shadows of the East Chicago, IN plant, as it makes way for IHB's Lakefront Yard. Ev... (more)

ArcelorMittal... 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. Would you expect anything less from the world's largest steel producer? At the East Chicago plant, we see their pair of GP15-1's... (more)

After cutting the corner at CP 501 onto the IHB, NS train 35J heads for Blue Island with a NS heritage duo.

IHB 114 stole some NS power and is seen coming off the Lakefront with 36 cars for the Cast Armor as a 64E bomb train cuts the corner at CP 501.

IHB GP40-2 4016 leads a coke train south through control point Grasselli.

IHB's lone SD38-2 shoves the 115 job into Michigan Avenue Yard.

After receiving the signal at CP 100, IHB 4011 and 4013 take control of train 115 as they make way down to CP 502. Once at 502, the train would hop on the NS Chicago Line for the trip east to Burn... (more)

With an SW1500 at each end, ArcelorMittal brings a molten steel "bottle train" into their East Chicago plant.

Almost missed the photo op for this since there was a empty gondola train that ran on the closest track just prior to this. But here's CP 7019 leading 147 off the NS onto the IHB connector at Arce... (more)

A pair of classics are in the process of taking headroom out of CN's Kirk Yard. GTW GP9R 4620 and EJ&E SD38-2 663 provide the power as the train approaches the Lakefront Subdivision. 4620 is of Ce... (more)