Newly rebuilt IHB SW1500 1512, wearing a retro 1950's paint job, switches the east end of Michigan Ave yard in East Chicago. IHB has elected to revive this scheme for the SW1500 rebuilds, and it l... (more)

Norfolk Southern AC44C6M 4163 was built from NS Dash 9-40CW 8961. This engine was rebuilt and converted to AC power at General Electric's Fort Worth, Texas, facility. It was placed in service on... (more)

A pair of GE 45-ton diesels work the Lakeshore Railcar & Tanker Services facility in East Chicago, Indiana. Locomotive 102 is a version with side rods, which made it quite entertaining to watch o... (more)

A pair of GE 45-ton diesels work the Lakeshore Railcar & Tanker Services facility in East Chicago, Indiana. Locomotive 101 is shoving a cut of tank cars down the interchange track to be picked up... (more)

Ticked into the back of Professional Locomotive Services facility in East Chicago, Indiana, were a pair of locomotives, including the former Lake Michigan Indiana Railroad GP11 8735. This locomot... (more)

Capital Finance / Citi Corp (CBFX) SW1500 1580, photographed at Professional Locomotive Services in East Chicago, Indiana, was built in April 1969 as Cotton Belt (SSW) 2517. When the Cotton Belt'... (more)

There is a lot of activity at the ArcelorMittal steel mill on the shore of Lake Michigan in East Chicago, Indiana, for a Sunday morning! As a lone SW1500 heads east, GP15-1 418 and another SW1500... (more)

A pair of General Electric industrial switchers work the Patriot Rail (Lakeshore Railcar & Tanker Services) facility in East Chicago, Indiana. Both engines (101 in red and 45-ton 102 in green) we... (more)

Between April 1940 and April 1943, General Motors Electro-Motive Division built a grand total of eleven 300 hp Model 40 locomotives. The diminutive diesels were intended for light industrial use.... (more)

Rounding the curve into the IHB's Michigan Ave Yard, NS 31M muscles south with the Conrail heritage unit, NS 8098, leading.

An hour or so after sunrise, NS 18M advances over the Grand Calumet River with a former SD9043MAC, NS 7248, leading.

CN 3194 holds in East Chicago with a westbound coke train.

NS GP60 7135 leads the bottle train west past the bracket signal at CP 100 in East Chicago.

An NS "bottle" train was westbound at East Chicago on IHB

An Arcelor Mittal SW1500 moves around the Indiana Harbor Plant after shoving a train of steel slab cars back into one of the buildings.