A Gibson Yard job returns passing Calumet Tower, which lasted much longer than I expected and was the last "true" interlocking tower in the state, closing in March 2013.
IHB SW7 8879 leads a transfer on its home tracks. A year later 8879 was rebuilt into a B-Unit and renumbered to BU52.
IHB 115 has completed its work assignment at the Burns Harbor yard and is heading back west at milepost 488 on the Norfolk Southern Chicago Line.
IHB SW1500 1501 sits in Calumet City with a single coil steel car.
Looks like a New York Central inspired paint scheme. The IHB was the connection between all the railroads that came into Chicago.
A pair of clean Gensets have completed their Burns Harbor work assignment and are leading IHB 115 back west on the Norfolk Southern Chicago Line.
An Indiana Harbor Belt train clatters over the former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio at Argo Crossing. The tower was closed in 1993 and demolished shortly thereafter.
4014 and 4019 heads West towards Bensenville.
Eastbound transfer run Blue Island
A pair of IHB GP40-2s lead NA11 west through Franklin Park, approaching the east end of Bensenville yard.
A Westbound IHB transfer with an SD20 and GP40-2 combo are about to roll across the diamonds at Calumet City.
With only a few left IHB #2920 takes control of this freight train out of Clearing Yard.
An Indiana Harbor Belt train works its way through the maze of tracks at Dolton, Ill.
An EMD NW2 that was built in September 1949 is westbound on the Conrail (ex NYC Michigan Central) Porter Branch at Willow Creek Junction. The local freight is en route from the Porter/South Burns ... (more)
A Blue Island-Norpaul transfer heads north through Blue Island Junction with a GP38-2/SD38-2 combo.
