A reverse move eastward with the brakeman visible on the platform of the EMD unit. The power lashup is en route back to former NKP home rail after setting out some cars on the Elgin Joliet & Easte... (more)
Detoured Chicago bound intermodal train takes a bumpy ride on the CF&E.
Tossing something down to the brakeman. This westbound freight was switching several cars around while utilizing the main and the two adjacent passing sidings. The operation took a couple of hour... (more)
A classic example of a standard gondola's capacity. Seen here with a unique load as it is being shoved and set out on a siding.
When bright green safety vests and ditch lights were not required. The power is returning to the former NKP main after making a set out in the yard on a dreary and overcast autumn day.
Westbound at maximum allowable track speed on the former NKP.
The Norfolk Southern NYC heritage unit leads an empty ethanol train out of the former NKP westward siding.
A very fast eastbound meets the coil train as it waits on the ex Nickel Plate passing siding.
Two four axle units lead a long string of coil cars west to Van Loon (Gary Indiana) on a fine late summer day.
Clean and not tagged with graffiti, around 1982 on the westward siding adjacent the N&W yard.
NS 13J is rolling west powered by a single unit as the long string of racks exit the siding at West Hobart on the former Nickel Plate line.
NS 13J is stationary on the passing siding as a stack train begins to roll west on the former NKP main.
NS Veterans Engine #6920 holds at Hobart West for instructions from the NS Chicago Dispatcher
During this era it was not uncommon for the crew to uncouple the power from their train, so as not to block the road crossings, and run engine light uptown, tie down on the main, and "go to beans"... (more)
Nice and clean, and in mainline service on this fine spring day.