A stranger from the West came into town on the old Nickel Plate Road in 1978.

Amtrak Michigan Service train 365, the Blue Water, is Chicago bound on a frigid day at milepost 488.

Lean Green Machine. Tier 4 low emissions locomotive at Michigan City IN. Photo by Jeff Stupar.

C&O 3910 leads a mixed freight west under the EJ&E bridge at Clarke Junction on the far west side of Gary.

NS 1148 leads an intermodal through Ogden Dunes on a sunny but frigid day.

Amtrak's Wolverine blasts past milepost 488 near the southernmost shore of Lake Michigan.

Protecting the shove, on not so well maintained track. Photo by Jeff Stupar.

GP60s lead a coil train west at milepost 488 on the Chicago Line.

Amtrak Michigan service train 365, the Blue Water, zips west on the eastward main at milepost 488.

WC SD45 6606 (ex ATSF 1875 built in 1966) is in the lead position on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne line.

Chicago Line Meet. GP40P-2 4010 leads a struggling IHB 115 west, as it meets a swift NS B09 eastbound at milepost 488.

NKP 765 is heading back east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne line after being staged in a Hollywood movie scene that was shot in East Chicago Indiana near the oil refinery. The ... (more)

Three EMD E units switch out a cut of cars just east of the regionally famous Broad Street interlocking tower at Griffith in 1975.

The daily morning "Bakery" train is arriving at Indiana Sugars to switch loads and empties in 1983. This section of the former Wabash Railroad 4th District mainline is still in place and functiona... (more)

Brilliant sunlight nicely illuminates some freight motor activity in the vicinity of the Carroll Avenue NICTD station and yard, near Shops, on the South Shore Line. Photo by Jeff Stupar.