CSX is just days away and our subject works the yard with a SBD BQ23-7 and pigeons swarm in the background. Get the spray cans ready! Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

INRD 9007 is coming down the hill back to their rails after grabbing interchange traffic from CSX.

INRD 9007 heads east for CSX's Hawthorne Yard to grab junk freight and bring back to their yard at Senate Avenue.

A duo of fresh INRD SD70Ms leading the Avon Turn back to Senate Ave Yard. Here they are are crossing CP Dale. You can see the Conrail blue sign still on the box.

CSX K883-25 rests away in Transfer Yard with CP 7023 leading. These potash trains come down from the CP in Chicago and run down to Indy on the Monon before going down the LIRC to Jeffersonville.

Golden light has set in on downtown Indy as CSXT 8024 leads Q631 towards Avon.

Golden light casts its glow on downtown Indy as KCS 4197 leads Q131 over the White River. The Q131's always seemed to have something out of the norm leading.

CSX J797 swings off the old NYC main and onto the Belt with a rare CSX SD50 leading. The J797 at the time was about the only thing using this portion of the Belt.

CSX I162 with UP power at Indianapolis Union Station

CSX M363 with CP power leading in Indianapolis

Indiana Rail Road Avon Turn in Indianapolis

An eastbound mixed freight consist with GE "humpback" in charge. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

Westbound Q219 is now rolling towards Avon Yard after staging at MP 278. The train is on the east side of Indy as it rolls thru CP 280 on the Indianapolis Terminal Sub. CP 280 is where old Indiana... (more)

The did exist in CSX if only for the life of a fruit fly. L&N was the original buyer. Photo by Mike Dolenski.

One of the more interesting passenger trains in the United States recently was the Hoosier State, operated four times per week between Indianapolis, Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois, with thi... (more)