Talk about a very unusual leader for a ethanol train! CSX GP38-2 2575 leads a ethanol train West through Hammond.

A pair of venerable IHB NW2s brings an autorack train west from Gibson Yard past Hohman Tower. Tom Golden photo.

Heading east on Norfolk Southern’s Chicago Line is a CSX freight behind a pair of GE ES44ACs: CSXT 5215 and 5220. (Hammond, Indiana – September 24, 2021)

Tom Golden photo.

As the moon makes an appearance in the eastern sky, an odd ball locomotive works a cut of auto carriers on the west side of Gibson Yard on a beautiful winter afternoon.

The 1984 edition of The Tulip Train is ready to depart Hammond for southern Michigan. Tom Golden photo.

Sitting on one of the turntable whisker tracks at Indiana Harbor Belt’s Gibson Yard is one of the railroad’s National Railway Equipment Company 3GS21C IHB 2161, the second of four of these low... (more)

Indiana Harbor Belt GP38-2 3800 shows off its new-ish Veterans paint scheme at the railroad’s Gibson Yard. This engine was built as Penn Central 8066, later becoming Conrail 8066, and then Norf... (more)

Indiana Harbor Belt has four SW1500s (so far) rebuilt by Railpower Technologies into RP15BDF natural gas-powered locomotives in the early 2000s. Seen at the railroad’s Gibson Yard, IHB 1504 and... (more)

Indiana Harbor Belt GP38-2 3800 shows off its new Veterans paint scheme as it takes a spin on the turntable at the roundhouse at Gibson Yard. This engine was built as Penn Central 8066, later bec... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Tom Golden photo.

This is the Electrically driven Turntable that serves as the heart of the IHB Gibson Roundhouse. The Roundhouse was built in 1906 by the CI&S Railroad. Unfortunately the Roundhouse doesn't see t... (more)

Just behind Hammond Lead Products between 165th and Osborn, The NS 4711 leaves a small cut on a siding. Osborn is a cool spot where the NS crosses the IHB just of the South East end of Gibson Yard... (more)

Here is another Roundhouse that doesn't see the action that it used too. This is the East End of IHB Gibson Yard. The IHB 2161 sits just outside the House waiting for who knows what. The fuel dock... (more)