Amtrak is about to cross Whiting, Indiana's Front Street crossing, nearing its stop at the Hammond-Whiting Station. From Hammond-Whiting, it'll be onward to Chicago.
A pair of ArcellorMittal locomotives are tied up just west of the mill while Chicago looms in the hazy distance across Lake Michigan.
Out of the steam from BP's massive Whiting refinery comes a CP ethanol train, led by cherry red SOO 6049.
ArcelorMittal #1012 and a traction calf push cars back into the deeper, lakeside portion of the mill. Lake Michigan lays behind, building energy from the wind blowing from the south today.
ArcelorMittal #1012 and a traction calf (behind, not visible) sit near the station house, preparing for a morning of switching. A section of the western expanse of the massive ArcelorMittal compl... (more)
Old school power leads a mixed train toward Chicago on nice sunny evening.
A BNSF coal train idles on the siding waiting for Chicago West Dispatch to let them on the main