Young Railfans. Good Times. Sons Mike and Jeff can still be found at trackside today, forty-seven years later, but it's uncertain as to whether or not the local road switcher is still in service. ... (more)
A fast manifest hustles east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne mainline, while the daily local freight waits in the yard alongside a Speno train, on a very hot, hazy, and humid Au... (more)
SP 8982 waits to proceed West in the former Nickel Plate Road yard at Hobart Indiana in 1978.
Four P&LE GE U25Bs are seen on the EJ&E Porter Line in 1980.
N&W 1373 waits in the hole, as a manifest freight heads east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne mainline.
Southern Pacific EMD SD45 8982 is seen at the former Nickel Plate Road yard in 1978.
Unusual cargo. I found this loaded 12 axle flatcar on the EJ&E Porter Line in February 1977.
On the former NKP Chicago-Fort Wayne line. The crew had "gone to beans" at a local eatery and left the motive power locked and idling on the main. They uncoupled from their train a half ... (more)
CF&E's tunnel motor sits tied down at County Line near Hobart with CHFW.
As of recently, lots of Kansas City Southern road power has recently been roaming around on Canadian National road freights. Westbound CN A491 is seen here splitting the old GTW G heads at Hobart ... (more)
Extra power sits tied down at Lake Siding - the CF&E's furthest siding to the west. These units will be used on an extra wind turbine train very early the next morning. This whole scene is illumin... (more)
NS 13J heads west at track speed on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne line.
A rare (1 of 3) N&W GP38AC white stripe "skunk" unit is seen working on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne line in 1982.
Southern Railway 4501 blasts through Hobart IN, as it leads an excursion train east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne line in 1973.
A GP38AC high hood leads a short train east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne line.
