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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 8909 |
| Description: |
Light on the Pine Yard lead track at sunset, Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
9/6/2003 Upload Date: 2/16/2004 8:43:54 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 8909(C40-9W) |
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716 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS Double Stack Train |
| Description: |
Receding shot of #8677 & 8949 northbound on the ex-Nickel Plate mainline at Hohman Junction (ex-NKP and IHB mains). |
| Photo Date: |
7/30/2005 Upload Date: 10/4/2005 7:23:32 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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NS 8949(C40-9W) |
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379 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS/IC 4 Pack on the NKP Mainline |
| Description: |
NS C40-9W #9715 leads a 4-unit consist that includes IC SD40X #6007 east on the ex-Nickel Plate mainline at Osborn Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/2006 Upload Date: 5/29/2006 9:48:58 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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NS 9715(C40-9W) NS 9234(C40-9W) IC 6007(SD40-2R) NS 8952(C40-9W) |
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782 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS Meet |
| Description: |
East-west NS freights led by CW40-9s #8995 & 9424 meet on their ex-NYC/CR mainline at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
4/3/2005 Upload Date: 5/6/2005 11:04:50 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 8995(C40-9W) |
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322 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSX 3 Pack and Coal Freight |
| Description: |
CSX CW44-9 #9005 with help from two sister locomotives slowly accelerates a US Steel-bound coal freight west out of Curtis Yard on the EJ&E branch line at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
5/6/2006 Upload Date: 8/10/2006 8:08:53 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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CSX 9005(C40-9W) CSX 329(AC44CW) CSX 38(AC44CW) |
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795 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rail Traffic |
| Description: |
CSX CW44-9 #9031 light with sister #7375 keep NS SD70 #2509 and her westbound coal freight company as they wait for clearance on the IHB mainline. |
| Photo Date: |
3/29/2006 Upload Date: 7/5/2006 2:13:16 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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CSX 9031(C40-9W) CSX 7375(C40-8W) NS 2509(SD70) |
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773 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CSX CW44-9 9035 |
| Description: |
Westbound on the CSX ex-B&OCT mainline at Dolton Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
12/7/2003 Upload Date: 3/14/2004 2:13:03 PM |
| Location: |
Dolton, IL |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
CSX 9035(C40-9W) |
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615 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound NS Manifest |
| Description: |
The sun is getting low on this late October afternoon as NS #9035 approaches the Chicago Line's Calumet Ave. crossing with an eastbound manifest. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2007 Upload Date: 5/4/2008 6:25:13 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9035(C40-9W) |
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234 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9037 |
| Description: |
Highballing a westbound manifest on her ex-NYC Chicago Line at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
7/3/2005 Upload Date: 7/29/2005 11:06:22 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9037(C40-9W) |
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350 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BNSF Manifest |
| Description: |
BNSF #1001 on the point of a BNSF/NS 6 pack (seen earlier in a meet with IHB #1505 in East Chicago), leads her mixed freight south through IHB's Gibson Junction on the Kankakee Line. The train is still snaking past the Gibson shops area with it's 1906-vintage roundhouse. |
| Photo Date: |
8/27/2008 Upload Date: 9/8/2008 1:33:18 AM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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BNSF 1001(C44-9W) BNSF 6792(SD40-2) BNSF 925(C40-8W) BNSF 7822(SD40-2) NS 9047(C40-9W) NS 8713(C40-8) |
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808 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NS 9084 |
| Description: |
#9084 heads south through Grasselli Junction on the Kankakee Line under threatening skies. |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/2007 Upload Date: 7/2/2007 12:32:27 PM |
| Location: |
East Chicago, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9084(C40-9W) |
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325 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
An NS Meet |
| Description: |
NS trains meet on the ex-Pennsy tracks near the IN/IL border. |
| Photo Date: |
5/31/2008 Upload Date: 6/4/2008 12:18:42 AM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9559(C40-9W) NS 9138(C40-9W) |
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292 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rounding the Bend |
| Description: |
A westbound NS stack train rounds the curve on the NS mainline. This curve connects the ex-NYC main and the ex-PRR main (as evidenced by the classic postion-light signal bridge in the foreground). |
| Photo Date: |
5/31/2008 Upload Date: 6/4/2008 12:08:53 AM |
| Location: |
Whiting, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9138(C40-9W) |
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375 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Nice Truck, Dumb Move! |
| Description: |
At the NS Front Street crossing. Would've made a nice hood ornament for lead loco #9158! |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/2008 Upload Date: 9/16/2008 9:39:55 PM |
| Location: |
Whiting, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9158(C40-9W) |
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361 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NS Coke Train |
| Description: |
NS C40-9W #9159 with help from sister SD70M-2 #2665 lugs a long string of empty coke hoppers upgrade out of Kirk Yard on the EJ&E elevated mainline. |
| Photo Date: |
5/21/2006 Upload Date: 8/27/2006 4:25:42 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9159(C40-9W) NS 2665(SD70M-2) |
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453 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS Intermodal |
| Description: |
Led by C40-9W #9165 and ex-CR C40-8W #8359, this NS intermodal train heads east beneath the vintage PC-era signal bridges at CP 502/503 on the ex-CR/NYC Chicago Line at Indiana Harbor. |
| Photo Date: |
9/15/2007 Upload Date: 10/28/2007 2:41:14 PM |
| Location: |
East Chicago, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9165(C40-9W) NS 8359(C40-8W) |
| Views: |
524 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NS C40-9W 9166 |
| Description: |
highballing a hot stack train west through Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
10/29/2005 Upload Date: 1/1/2006 5:53:05 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9166(C40-9W) |
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316 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9167 |
| Description: |
Leading a westbound stack train on the ex-NKP mainline. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/2005 Upload Date: 3/26/2005 4:30:05 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9167(C40-9W) |
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518 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NB NS Drag |
| Description: |
#9197 leads a slow manifest north on the IHB Kankakee Line through Grasselli Junction. The location of the former Grasselli interlocking tower - since moved to the HVRM museum in N. Judson, IN - is visible in the foreground. |
| Photo Date: |
6/20/2009 Upload Date: 7/3/2009 8:28:46 PM |
| Location: |
East Chicago, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9197(C40-9W) |
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102 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS C40-9W 9237 |
| Description: |
Leading a mixed freight south on the Kankakee Line between Calumet and Grasselli Junctions. |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/2007 Upload Date: 9/27/2007 7:01:15 PM |
| Location: |
East Chicago, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9237(C40-9W) |
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400 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS C40-9W 9250 |
| Description: |
Operation Lifesaver loco holding on the old IHB mainline at the western edge of Gibson Woods. |
| Photo Date: |
10/15/2005 Upload Date: 12/27/2005 3:01:19 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9250(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
538 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southbound NS Manifest |
| Description: |
Rolling through Calumet Junction on the Kankakee Line |
| Photo Date: |
9/27/2008 Upload Date: 10/6/2008 11:20:55 PM |
| Location: |
East Chicago, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9519(C40-9W) NS 9251(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
240 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NS on the Nickel Plate |
| Description: |
NS #9253 rolls her double-stack train west along the ex-NKP mainline at Osborn Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
9/17/2008 Upload Date: 9/28/2008 12:32:54 AM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9253(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
159 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9259 |
| Description: |
Eastbound on the ex-NYC mainline near sunset at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
10/23/2004 Upload Date: 12/4/2004 10:40:13 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9259(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
352 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9279 |
| Description: |
Eastbound out of Pine Yard at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/2003 Upload Date: 1/28/2004 9:52:36 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9279(C40-9W) NS 9517(C40-9W) |
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900 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9s #9836 & 9288 |
| Description: |
First two locos of a 4-unit NS lashup "highballing" (around 30 mph - the fastest I've ever seen on these tracks) west on the elevated EJ&E mainline at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
7/7/2005 Upload Date: 7/31/2005 8:46:44 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9836(C40-9W) NS 9288(C40-9W) |
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492 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9291 |
| Description: |
With a westbound manifest at MP 499 of the ex-NYC main at sunset, Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
8/17/2003 Upload Date: 2/10/2004 9:59:47 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9291(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
666 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS C40-9W 9300 |
| Description: |
Accelerating a westbound mixed freight on the ex-NYC Chicago Line. |
| Photo Date: |
9/3/2009 Upload Date: 9/14/2009 1:24:08 AM |
| Location: |
Whiting, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9300(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
165 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9316 |
| Description: |
Leading a westbound intermodal on the ex-NYC mainline at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
2/27/2004 Upload Date: 4/12/2004 8:36:56 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9316(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
379 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NS C40-9W 9316 |
| Description: |
Highballing a hot stack train west on her ex-NYC/CR Chicago Line at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
3/4/2006 Upload Date: 5/15/2006 12:43:47 AM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9316(C40-9W) |
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227 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9320 |
| Description: |
Eastbound on the IHB mainline at Dolton Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
10/4/2003 Upload Date: 2/19/2004 6:44:14 PM |
| Location: |
Dolton, IL |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9320(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
587 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9322 |
| Description: |
Westbound on the ex-NYC mainline at 117th Street. |
| Photo Date: |
8/18/2002 Upload Date: 2/2/2004 12:19:35 AM |
| Location: |
Whiting, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9322(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
580 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9356 |
| Description: |
Westbound on the ex-NYC mainline at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
10/18/2003 Upload Date: 3/3/2004 10:58:59 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9356(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
651 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9359 |
| Description: |
Southbound across the Cal Sag Channel on the IHB/CSX mainline at Blue Island Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/2005 Upload Date: 4/9/2005 3:54:42 PM |
| Location: |
Blue Island, IL |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9359(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
704 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9362 |
| Description: |
Light wih sister SD60 6585 near sunset at a frigid Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
1/23/2005 Upload Date: 3/26/2005 4:48:32 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9362(C40-9W) |
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385 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9370 |
| Description: |
Eastbound at CP 501 on the NS ex-NYC mainline. |
| Photo Date: |
5/24/2003 Upload Date: 1/28/2004 9:28:01 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9370(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
762 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 9373 |
| Description: |
Westbound on the ex-NYC mainline. |
| Photo Date: |
5/19/2009 Upload Date: 6/3/2009 11:03:46 PM |
| Location: |
Whiting, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9373(C40-9W) |
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184 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS 9377 |
| Description: |
Leading a mixed freight west past the IHB Gibson roundhouse toward Gibson Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
5/31/2009 Upload Date: 6/3/2009 11:08:23 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9377(C40-9W) |
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133 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS C40-9W 9391 |
| Description: |
Leading a short manifest south on the IHB portion of the Kankakee Line toward Gibson Junction. She's just crossed the East Chicago/Hammond border [the so-called Grand Calumet River] and is passing under the IN Tollroad/South Shore mainline/Michigan Ave. bridges. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/2005 Upload Date: 12/27/2005 3:08:38 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9391(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
370 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southbonund on the Kanakaee Line |
| Description: |
Heading south out of Michigan Ave. Yard, NS #9401 crosses 149th Street with her long mixed freight. |
| Photo Date: |
10/14/2008 Upload Date: 10/14/2008 8:08:22 PM |
| Location: |
East Chicago, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9401(C40-9W) NS 8859(C40-9) |
| Views: |
323 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS C40-9W 9422 |
| Description: |
Flagging the Clark Road crossing at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
7/15/2005 Upload Date: 10/4/2005 6:56:49 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9422(C40-9W) |
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507 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS Special |
| Description: |
#9430 heads west on an ex-NKP-main runner track with research car #36 and caboose #48. |
| Photo Date: |
10/4/2008 Upload Date: 10/6/2008 6:45:15 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9430(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
369 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
NS 9431 |
| Description: |
About to enter the Pine Yard lead track off the NS ex-NYC Chicago Line light with UP C41-8W 9098 at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/2006 Upload Date: 5/14/2006 10:43:29 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9431(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
361 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Flagging the Chicago Avenue Grade Crossing |
| Description: |
NS #7682's nortbound steel-coil train holds as the conductor prepares to flag the Kankakee Line's Chicago Ave. crossing - plagued by gate malfunctions resulting from the recent heavy rains and flooding. |
| Photo Date: |
9/16/2008 Upload Date: 9/23/2008 9:43:25 PM |
| Location: |
East Chicago, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 7682(ES40DC) NS 9433(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
413 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 #9476 |
| Description: |
Leading an eastbound intermodal through Pine Junction between thunderstoms. |
| Photo Date: |
6/4/2005 Upload Date: 7/10/2005 9:34:00 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9476(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
376 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS CW40-9 9498 |
| Description: |
Leading an eastbound stack train on the CSX mainline (not a common sight) at Pine Junction. |
| Photo Date: |
11/27/2004 Upload Date: 1/13/2005 8:58:55 PM |
| Location: |
Gary, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9498(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
416 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NS Mixed Freight |
| Description: |
C40-9W #9527 leads a mixed freight west on the Chicago Line near Front Street. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/2007 Upload Date: 11/13/2007 8:57:51 PM |
| Location: |
Whiting, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9527(C40-9W) |
| Views: |
315 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
CN-NS Meet |
| Description: |
On the NS Chicago Line at the Front Street crossing. |
| Photo Date: |
9/25/2008 Upload Date: 9/29/2008 8:21:17 PM |
| Location: |
Whiting, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
NS 9548(C40-9W) CN 5624(SD70I) IC 6113(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
483 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Building a Train |
| Description: |
NS #9559 creeps east across the IN/IL border while building her train in nearby Colehour Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
5/31/2008 Upload Date: 6/4/2008 12:15:52 AM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9559(C40-9W) |
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| Title: |
NS & Phil Smidt's |
| Description: |
An NS mixed freight just out of Colehour Yard idles across Railroad Street from the recently-closed Phil Smidt seafood restaurant. This Whiting icon, like the mighty Pennsylvania RR, is yet another victim of the changing times. |
| Photo Date: |
5/31/2008 Upload Date: 6/3/2008 11:54:15 AM |
| Location: |
Whiting, IN |
| Author: |
Mike Rapchak Jr. |
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| Locomotives: |
NS 9559(C40-9W) |
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