EJ&E switcher #313 crosses Riley St. with a load of metal slab cars from the Mittal Steel factory.
Mittal switcher 113 pulls a loaded bottle train from the blasting furnaces for pick-up by the NS.
A Mittal locomotive still in the Inland Steel paint scheme roars along with steel slabs. The Caterpillar prime movers sound like a hybrid between a large semi truck and a switching locomotive.
A pair of Mittal locomotives move through the plant with a mixed train of scrap and slabs.
IHB 1515 is hooked up to an unidentified (by me) SW1500, #007 with no reporting marks (that I saw) ... the words "Iron Willed" are along the battery doors.
Running long hood forward, #6059 leads an interesting SOO/CP/IHB consist south out of IHB's Michigan Avenue Yard past the interlocking tower at Calumet Junction.
CSS&SB eastbound train 117 departs the East Chicago station enroute for Michigan City, IN as the sun reappears from under the clouds.
IHB 4010, a rare GP40P-2, pulls out of the Michigan Avenue Yard with a cut of cars.
One of the J's infamous green switchers pulls a cut out of the East Chicago yard and goes about switching chores.
A C40-8 and two C32-8s roll off the main with steel freight bound for IHB's Michigan Avenue Yard.
A pair of IHB's ex-SP GP40s, including the GP40P 4010 (the SP bicentennial unit) wait for a signal to cross the NS at CP502.
#7799, leading a westbound stack train, blasts past UP SD70ACe #8507, holding on the parallel track with a stack train of her own.
This is actually a pretty active railroad. It's too bad you can only really observe one corner of its operations.
Basking in the afternoon sun, beautiful winged ACe #8374 holds for a green board with her mixed freight.
Heat rises all around as two Peoria Locomotive Works switchers drag steel slabs to and fro.
