A westbound Michigan Service train has just exited Porter Junction during a sunny afternoon in NWI.

VIA 6445 arrives at Hammond, IN station with what I believe to be a joint Amtrak-VIA service train between Chicago and Toronto. This train is westbound on its last lap into Chicago Union Station.

An Amtrak Turboliner rolls past Nero tower at Pine junction on the Chicago Line in 1979.

Vintage 1990s Amtrak. The Lakeshore Limited rolls through Chesterton-Porter, IN on Conrail's former NYC mainline at the junction with CSX and the connnection to the IHB and Santa Fe at Streator, I... (more)

Eastbound "Pennsylvanian" east South Bend, IN.

Dig those shiny number boards. Photo by Gary Zeitler.

Cold And Late

Amtrak 49, the westbound Lake Shore Limited blasts through Ogden Dunes, running over 3 hours late today. In the background, steam from the ArcelorMittal Plant in Burn... (more)

Amtrak 355 pauses briefly on its Michigan line home rail before entering the NS Chicago Line at CP 482 in Porter IN.

A snow covered AMTK 37 leads the 350 Wolverine east past the searchlights at CP 491 on Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line.

Amtrak’s westbound Lake Shore Limited flies past milepost 460 east of La Porte, Indiana, on October 22, 1989. Three EMD F40PHs race the 18-car train toward Chicago on Conrail’s busy main line ... (more)

Amtrak 32 leads the 353 Wolverine under the CP 503 signal bridge on Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line while NS's Lackawanna Heritage ACe waits with a UP bound manifest in the background.

Amtrak 30 and the 350 Wolverine cross the swing bridge over Trail Creek in Michigan City, IN.

Amtrak 35 and the Wolverine split the old NYC signals at CP 489 on Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line.

Having completed another safe run, the old crew heads toward the station in Indianapolis, Indiana, on a chilly December 14th, 1973, as a fresh crew climbs aboard Penn Central E8A 4306. The train ... (more)

Amtrak eastbound "Wolverine" Porter, IN