Conrail's Office Car Special heads south on the Kankakee Line and is just about to enter the Indiana Harbor Belt's Gibson Yard. Tom Golden photo.
Finally after many lost chances and opportunities, I get my chance to catch NS 8114, the Original NS heritage unit at Hammond leading an empty oil train westbound.
Southbound on the Egyptian line, an autorack unit train with a mix of Conrail and Santa Fe power traverses the connection with the IHB's mainline just east of Gibson Yard. Tom Golden photo
A CSX SD50-2 and CSX SD50-3 await a crew to pick up a coke train in Hammond Indiana near the Horseshoe Casino
Nearing the final destination of Gibson Yard, a very nice pair of elephant style BN Executive SD70MAC's head west on the approach to Hohman Avenue. This train came off the UP Villa Grove Sub in Do... (more)
The NS local heads east through downtown Hammond. Quite a lengthy train today! With PTC coming in 2015, one can only wonder how much longer that searchlight signal will last.
Before heading into Gibson, the Harbor's only SD38-2 and an SD20 switch out the little yard just west of Hohman Avenue.
A pair of consecutively numbered Conrail units, SD40s 6971 (ex-CR 6298; ex-PC 6045; nee-PRR 6045) and 6972 (ex-CR 6313; ex-PC 6060; nee-PRR 6060) await their next assignment at Gibson Yard in Hamm... (more)
What's a trip to the IL/IN border without seeing the bottle train? As some CP power waits around for a crew out of Gibson to take over, the NS 5072 rolls by.
A eastbound Wolverine ducks under the Pennsy signals in Hammond.
Using their leased GMTX GP38-2, the Chicago Short Line heads light through Hammond.
The Pennsy lives! The Pennsy heritage unit ducks under a original Pennsy signal bridge at CP 506 in Hammond, leading 23K west.
NS 8102 just went passed its own heritage signal and heads for Chicago with its low priority intermodal train.
An eastbound autorack train is approaching its destination of Gibson Yard, led by a CSX SD70ACe.
CSX AC4400CW 340 leads a stack train west through Hammond, closing in on State Line Junction.
