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2/5/2026
 
 
 
 
 
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BNSF CW40-8 829
Title:  BNSF CW40-8 829
Description:  Warbonnet leading an eastbound Auto-Max train on the CSX#mainline at Dolton Junction.
Photo Date:  8/3/2003  Upload Date: 2/6/2004 5:08:58 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  BNSF 829(C40-8W)
Views:  1815   Comments: 0
BNSF CW40-8 855
Title:  BNSF CW40-8 855
Description:  Warbonnet bn repose at IHB's Blue Island Yard.
Photo Date:  11/14/2003  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 3:59:06 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BNSF 855(C40-8W)
Views:  1430   Comments: 0
Warbonnet on the ex-NKP
Title:  Warbonnet on the ex-NKP
Description:  BNSF Warbonnet C40-8W #901 crosses the Osborn Junction diamond with a westbound double-stack train.
Photo Date:  6/27/2007  Upload Date: 8/12/2007 6:06:36 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  BNSF 901(C40-8W)
Views:  960   Comments: 0
BNSF C40-8W 925
Title:  BNSF C40-8W 925
Description:  Warbonnet moving westbound past sister 4898's stack train on the CSX mainline near the Euclid Ave. crossing.
Photo Date:  3/5/2006  Upload Date: 5/15/2006 4:12:06 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  BNSF 925(C40-8W)
Views:  988   Comments: 0
BNSF Manifest
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.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 1001(C44-9W) BNSF 6792(SD40-2) BNSF 925(C40-8W) BNSF 7822(SD40-2) NS 9047(C40-9W) NS 8713(C40-8)
Views:  1928   Comments: 1
CSX CW40-8 7317
Title:  CSX CW40-8 7317
Description:  Westbound near sunset on the ex-B&O mainline at Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 11/27/2004 9:16:55 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7317(C40-8W)
Views:  1252   Comments: 0
CSX ex-CR CW40-8 7323
Title:  CSX ex-CR CW40-8 7323
Description:  Accelerathng westbound on the ex-B&O main at Pine Junction. ALCo lives! :)
Photo Date:  8/15/2004  Upload Date: 11/26/2004 10:54:40 AM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7323(C40-8W)
Views:  1700   Comments: 5
CSX CW40-8 7325
Title:  CSX CW40-8 7325
Description:  Eastbound at Pine Junction during the January '04 blizzard.
Photo Date:  1/4/2004  Upload Date: 3/6/2004 11:03:27 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock
Locomotives:  CSX 7325(C40-8W)
Views:  1491   Comments: 1
CSX CW40-8 7340
Title:  CSX CW40-8 7340
Description:  Leading a westbound DOD military tank train on the ex-B&O maieline at Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  3/2/2004  Upload Date: 4/8/2004 10:47:59 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7340(C40-8W)
Views:  1468   Comments: 0
CSX CW40-8 7348
Title:  CSX CW40-8 7348
Description:  Eastbound on the ex-B&O mainline near sunset at a cold and lonesome Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  1/23/2005  Upload Date: 3/26/2005 4:43:46 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7348(C40-8W)
Views:  1045   Comments: 0
CSX C40-8W 7355
Title:  CSX C40-8W 7355
Description:  Leading an eastbound stack train on the ex-B&OCT mainline at Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  9/3/2006  Upload Date: 1/13/2007 7:34:55 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7355(C40-8W)
Views:  981   Comments: 0
CSX CW40-8s 7395 & 7365
Title:  CSX CW40-8s 7395 & 7365
Description:  Holding westbound side by side on the ex-B&OCT mainline at Euclid Ave.
Photo Date:  6/12/2004  Upload Date: 9/16/2004 9:24:29 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7395(C40-8W) CSX 7365(C40-8W)
Views:  2416   Comments: 1
CSX C40-8W 7370
Title:  CSX C40-8W 7370
Description:  Leading a mixed freight west out of the former Gary & Western Railroad yard on the IHB mainline.
Photo Date:  9/3/2005  Upload Date: 12/14/2005 4:27:16 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7370(C40-8W)
Views:  1019   Comments: 0
Rail Traffic
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.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 9031(C40-9W) CSX 7375(C40-8W) NS 2509(SD70)
Views:  1743   Comments: 0
CSX CW40-8 7380
Title:  CSX CW40-8 7380
Description:  Holding westbound on the IHB mainline (Track 4 of the old Gary & Western Yard).
Photo Date:  5/24/2003  Upload Date: 1/27/2004 6:41:56 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7380(C40-8W)
Views:  1869   Comments: 0
CSX CW40-8 7387
Title:  CSX CW40-8 7387
Description:  Laying over in CSX's Curtis Yard, Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  9/19/2004  Upload Date: 11/27/2004 9:22:17 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7387(C40-8W)
Views:  1547   Comments: 3
CSX Coal Freight at Kirk Yard
Title:  CSX Coal Freight at Kirk Yard
Description:  CSX #7659's train - after traversing the EJ&E's mainline "horeshoe" at Pine Junction - has arrived at the west terminus of the J's Kirk Yard anj is waiting for clearance to enter the yard.
Photo Date:  10/10/2004  Upload Date: 12/4/2004 12:29:31 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7659(C40-8W)
Views:  1278   Comments: 0
CSX Automax
Title:  CSX Automax
Description:  CSX CW40-8 #7674 approaches with a westbound AutoMax train on the ex-B&O mainline at Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  7/14/2007  Upload Date: 8/12/2007 8:03:37 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7674(C40-8W)
Views:  961   Comments: 0
CSX CW44-8 7681
Title:  CSX CW44-8 7681
Description:  Westbound on the CSX ex-B&OCT mainline at Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  11/19/2003  Upload Date: 3/9/2004 11:51:29 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7681(C40-8W)
Views:  1473   Comments: 0
CSX CW40-8 7693
Title:  CSX CW40-8 7693
Description:  Westbound on the CSX ex-B&O mainline in a late-season snowstorm.
Photo Date:  3/21/2004  Upload Date: 4/12/2004 11:03:36 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7693(C40-8W)
Views:  1261   Comments: 0
CSX CW40-8s 7786 & 7701
Title:  CSX CW40-8s 7786 & 7701
Description:  Holding with a long stack train at Barr Yard's west end.
Photo Date:  5/1/2005  Upload Date: 6/15/2005 7:05:59 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CSX 7786(C40-8W) CSX 7701(C40-8W)
Views:  1351   Comments: 0
CSX CW40-8 7721
Title:  CSX CW40-8 7721
Description:  Westbound on the CSX ex-B&OCT macnline at Calumet Junction.
Photo Date:  11/9/2003  Upload Date: 3/9/2004 11:31:47 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7721(C40-8W)
Views:  1598   Comments: 0
CSX CW40-8 #7742
Title:  CSX CW40-8 #7742
Description:  Westbound out of the former Gary & Western Railroad yard on the IHB mainline.
Photo Date:  5/22/2005  Upload Date: 7/2/2005 12:21:37 AM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7742(C40-8W)
Views:  951   Comments: 0
CSX C40-8W 7751
Title:  CSX C40-8W 7751
Description:  Smoking in the best ALCo tradition, #7751 gets her long mixed freight underway (with help from CEFX SD40-2 3138) westbound at Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  5/6/2006  Upload Date: 8/10/2006 8:24:13 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7751(C40-8W) CEFX 3138(SD40M-2)
Views:  1521   Comments: 0
CSX C40-8W 7781
Title:  CSX C40-8W 7781
Description:  Holding westbound on her ex-B&OCT mainline while the crew does inspection.
Photo Date:  10/16/2005  Upload Date: 12/27/2005 3:26:55 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7781(C40-8W)
Views:  1139   Comments: 0
CSX C40-8W 7784
Title:  CSX C40-8W 7784
Description:  Heading west on her ex-B&O mainline with an ethanol tank car train.
Photo Date:  2/25/2006  Upload Date: 5/14/2006 11:09:03 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7784(C40-8W)
Views:  983   Comments: 0
CSX CW40-8 7793
Title:  CSX CW40-8 7793
Description:  Leading a westbound coal freight on the ex-B&O mainline near sunset at Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  10/23/2004  Upload Date: 12/4/2004 10:44:53 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7793(C40-8W)
Views:  1155   Comments: 0
UP and CSX Stack Trains
Title:  UP and CSX Stack Trains
Description:  UP SD70ACe #8507 waits with her westbound stack train while a higher-priority CSX version - led by CW40-8 #7799 - blasts by on the parallel track.
Photo Date:  10/8/2006  Upload Date: 11/26/2006 2:10:44 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8507(SD70ACe) CSX 7799(C40-8W)
Views:  1317   Comments: 0
CSX
Title:  CSX
Description:  Northbound on the CSX/IHB mainline at Blue Island Junction. CW40-8 #7804 is visible through the CN-mainline bridge.
Photo Date:  11/7/2004  Upload Date: 12/11/2004 7:59:39 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  CSX 7804(C40-8W)
Views:  1412   Comments: 0
CSX 7836
Title:  CSX 7836
Description:  Approaching Calumet Junction through the afternoon's heat-wave distortion.
Photo Date:  5/31/2009  Upload Date: 6/3/2009 10:58:42 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7836(C40-8W)
Views:  376   Comments: 0
CSX 7857
Title:  CSX 7857
Description:  Peeking out from under the Halsted St. overpass at IHB's Blue Island Yard.
Photo Date:  4/20/2008  Upload Date: 6/17/2008 2:36:18 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CSX 7857(C40-8W)
Views:  568   Comments: 0
CSX 3 Pack
Title:  CSX 3 Pack
Description:  Triple-headed CSX power northbound on the UP main at the UP/IHB/CSX diamonds, Dolton Junction.
Photo Date:  9/7/2003  Upload Date: 2/16/2004 8:55:37 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7861(C40-8W) CSX 72(AC44CW) CSX 247(AC44CW)
Views:  2404   Comments: 0
CSX CW40-8 7900
Title:  CSX CW40-8 7900
Description:  Awaiting a green board at Pine Junction
Photo Date:  7/10/2004  Upload Date: 7/29/2008 3:04:50 AM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CSX 7900(C40-8W)
Views:  882   Comments: 0
NS Big Blue
Title:  NS Big Blue
Description:  Ex-CR C40-8W'#8316 and her stack train approach MP 503 on the NS Chicago Line. The train is crossing the Indiana Harbor*ship canal and entering Mittal Steel territory.
Photo Date:  9/15/2007  Upload Date: 12/16/2007 3:45:00 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
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Locomotives:  NS 8316(C40-8W)
Views:  976   Comments: 1
NS CW40-8 8338
Title:  NS CW40-8 8338
Description:  Ex-CR loco - now a NS Whiteface - highballs a coal freight west through Pine Junction on her ex-namesake's mainline.
Photo Date:  8/20/2005  Upload Date: 11/12/2005 5:39:14 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8338(C40-8W)
Views:  1038   Comments: 0
NS CW40-8 8348
Title:  NS CW40-8 8348
Description:  Ex-CR unit leading a coal freight west out of Curtis Yard on the EJ&E branch line at Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  4/10/2005  Upload Date: 5/16/2005 4:39:46 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8348(C40-8W)
Views:  940   Comments: 0
NS Intermodal
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.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 9165(C40-9W) NS 8359(C40-8W)
Views:  1382   Comments: 2
NS C40-8W 8396
Title:  NS C40-8W 8396
Description:  Southbound on the IHB Kankakee Line at Gibson Junction.
Photo Date:  10/30/2005  Upload Date: 1/2/2006 7:24:05 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8396(C40-8W)
Views:  1029   Comments: 0
NS ex-CR CW40-8 #8396
Title:  NS ex-CR CW40-8 #8396
Description:  "Big Blue" highballing west on her ex-namesake' mainline at Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  5/22/2005  Upload Date: 7/2/2005 3:19:14 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8397(C40-8W)
Views:  1070   Comments: 0
Through Osborn Junction
Title:  Through Osborn Junction
Description:  A mixed freight led by NS ex-CR #8399 lumbers slowly northward through Osborn Junction on the Kankakee Line.
Photo Date:  3/29/2008  Upload Date: 6/6/2008 5:03:30 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8399(C40-8W)
Views:  858   Comments: 3
NS ex-CR CW40-8 8403
Title:  NS ex-CR CW40-8 8403
Description:  Leading an eastbound manifest on the ex-CR/NYC mainline at Pine junction.
Photo Date:  8/22/2004  Upload Date: 11/26/2004 3:10:56 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8403(C40-8W)
Views:  1525   Comments: 4
NS and Amtrak
Title:  NS and Amtrak
Description:  Though moving at a respectable pace. NS ex-CR C40-8W #8425 and her autorack train are about to be overtaken by a much swifter Chicago-bound Amtrak express.
Photo Date:  5/20/2006  Upload Date: 8/26/2006 10:33:42 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8425(C40-8W)
Views:  900   Comments: 0
Early Morning Intermodal
Title:  Early Morning Intermodal
Description:  NS C40-8W #8430 leads an eastbound intermodal through Hammond on the ex-NKP mainline at 7:30 a.m.
Photo Date:  6/30/2007  Upload Date: 9/1/2007 12:52:14 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8430(C40-8W)
Views:  625   Comments: 0
NS C40-8W 8456
Title:  NS C40-8W 8456
Description:  Leading a westbound mixed freight at Pine Junction with cars bound for the Pine intechange yard.
Photo Date:  1/14/2006  Upload Date: 3/13/2006 6:32:38 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8456(C40-8W)
Views:  1009   Comments: 0
NS ex-CR CW40-8 8467
Title:  NS ex-CR CW40-8 8467
Description:  Westbound on her ex-namesake's mainline at Pine Junction.
Photo Date:  10/10/2004  Upload Date: 12/4/2004 12:00:46 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 8467(C40-8W)
Views:  1273   Comments: 1
UP Leads
Title:  UP Leads
Description:  C40-8W #9387 rambles through Pine Junction on the CSX main with a westbound manifest.
Photo Date:  8/24/2008  Upload Date: 9/26/2008 9:22:42 PM
Location:  Gary, IN
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9387(C40-8W)
Views:  806   Comments: 2
UP C41-8W 9400
Title:  UP C41-8W 9400
Description:  At the CN/IC Woodcrest shops area.
Photo Date:  4/23/2006  Upload Date: 7/17/2006 3:10:57 PM
Location:  Homewood, IL
Author:  Mike Rapchak Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 9400(C40-8W)
Views:  1438   Comments: 0


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