A brand new CREX ES44 leads an auto train west out of IHB's Blue Island Yard.
Chessie lives! VLIX 7311, which was stored on the Chesapeake & Indiana for several years, moved to Barr Yard in late September. Now it has been transferred to IHB's Blue Island Yard in Riverdale.
Tom Golden photo.
A pair of Seaboard units are headed east out of Barr Yard with a stack train as they cross under the IC mainline. Tom Golden photo.
Here is something you would not expect to see in Chicagoland.
Just another typical day at IHB Blue Island Yard finds another slug set working a cut of cars while other units awaits the next call to duty.
A slug set works the east end of Blue Island Yard.
CSX 7365 leads a autorack train into the east end of Blue Island yard, passing a IHB Genset switching the yard out.
A burned out CSXT unit still calls Barr Yard home after being involved in collision back in early January 2012.
A pair of CSX GP15T diesels, 1502 and 1510, work at the railroad's Barr Yard in Riverdale, Illinois, on September 19th, 1997. These units were originally Chesapeake & Ohio locomotives, carrying t... (more)
IHB's pair of GP38-2s lead a manifest west into Blue Island yard.
The Harbor's GP38-2 pair makes its way through Blue Island Yard, the end of the short journey from Gibson.
IHB's pair of GP38-2's, 3802 and 3801 arrive at Blue Island Yard with a transfer from Gibson. They are passing under the former IC Chicago Sub.
An Indiana Harbor Belt GP40-2/Genset combo departs Blue Island Yard, bound for Gibson.