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South Shore's pair of ex-Iowa Interstate SD38-2's approach the Dearborn Ave crossing in Hammond, IN with the Belt Job, AF-4.
October 9, 2020
South Shore Freight crew PF9 is working the Kingsbury Industrial Park at the end of the CSS branch from Michigan City. The industrial park is a repurposed US Army Ordinance Depot built during WWII.
Built in 1913 in Newcastle upon Tyne. A Canadian survey ship that served in both World Wars and survived the Halifax explosion. She surveyed the waters of Canada's Arctic and the coast of Newfoundland and was also used as a patrol and training vessel. Now permanently docked in Halifax Harbour next to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
Working with a three man crew, the AF4 heads back north after working multiple industries including Kingsbury, Pigfeed, and interchange with the CN at Stillwell. Here the Chicago South Shore Kingsbury local is seen passing by the pond in La Porte as the sun begins to set. Big thanks to the conductor on the job for giving us a run down of the day's work.
An eastbound South Shore train, piloted by Engineer "Diamond" Jon Miller passes 802 switching the EJ&E interchange at Goff Jct., east side of Gary, in October 1976.
South Shore 803 with trailing brand new Port Huron & Detroit boxcar, works near Hammond, Indiana on March 4, 1978
It’s the first sunny photo of the year of 2025, as a pair of Traction Orange CSS GP38-2s (2006/2005) with a 17 car AF12 from their Bailly Yard in Burns Harbor, IN that’s bound for CSX Pegasus Yard in East Chicago, Indiana. Still on obvious home rails, AF12 beings their run up hill over CSX Garrett Sub, curving along Route 20 in the Miller neighborhood of Gary, IN.
This is one of the many “new” possible shots along the NICTD main with the completion of their double track project. While fighting with the clouds most of the day, I’m glad I was chasing the sun and not the train, as I decided to pull over and try something new! Taken: 1-19-25
Cooler than any tea kettle, streamliner or heritage unit this everyday South Shore Freight train heads east down 11th street in Michigan City, Indiana
A three-car eastbound South Shore passenger train crosses the ICG heading for home rails at Kensington Tower on a very frigid morning, in January 1982.
The two CSS/NICD geeps split two bilevel electric cars as they head east at CP Cline. East Chicago, IN
CSS train AF2 just came through the drawbridge on Amtrak's Michigan line. The CSS works a couple industries on this side of the river. It was another frigid day in the Midwest. I woke up to -12 degrees, drove the 2 1/4 hours to Michigan City to chase the CSS down the Kingsbury line. When I arrived, I received the disappointing news that they were not running down there today. But found out the AF2 job was waiting near Drawbridge for Amtrak to go by. Thanks to KV for the tip.
CSS 2009 runs through the controlled siding under the x-Michigan Central coal tower in Michigan City. A large number of cars for USALCO and Shell necessitated the move.
The theme of my weekend was MOODLE and INTRO to CSS. Saturday am woke up at 4am burning with the desire to record my top ten tips for new edna Groups users. Shared it in the edna Group Owners forum and will work up a blog post soon.
Saturday night watched a great series of how to videos from the Moodleman himself Julian Ridden on how to create a Moodle template.
Tonight, I dug in and gave it a go. This is NOT the finished product, it's where I had to stop for tonight. I had a fantastic time learning and love, love, love Firebug, Dreamweaver, Filezilla and Gimp in concert. Also LOVE Colour Picker. (Yes I know Dreamweaver can FTP, no I haven't set it up yet cuz I was impatient.)
DOM = document object model (everything on a single web page *document* everything on that page is an object. Colour picker can spit back a palette of a web.
The buck in the foreground had something pique it's interest as the toms in the background tried to get laid. We're at the crossing of IN 35 outside of LaPorte on South Shore's Kingsbury Industrial Lead (NKP)
South Shore's SD38-2 pair was in charge of an afternoon belt job I accidentally stumbled upon while leaving Michigan City. There was hardly a cloud in the sky back east, but after chasing them west some 20 miles a wave of rain moved in making me loose motivation in Gary.
Ogden Dunes, IN.
03-27-21
Airbus A320-212 of Anda Air (operated by Jonika Airlines) in Lviv as charter flight from Sharm-El-Sheikh on a rainy day.
Seeing a South Shore 800 was always a treat for me. The CSS&SB's version of the Little Joe was massive, powerful, and sleek. It didn't make any difference if it was moving or standing still, the 800's were hard to beat.
CSS 1376 at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in October 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This car was stenciled: RETURN TO CONAGRA FERGUS FALLS, MINN. VIA BN
A set of South Shore Freight GP38-2's ease around the "city track" from Kirk Yard to head back east to CSS trackage at Curtis. This shot just off of Clark Road sure makes the area look like a complete wasteland.
Gary, IN.
01-13-21
Airbus A320-212 of Anda Air (operated by Jonika Airlines) during takeoff in Lviv as charter flight to Sharm-El-Sheikh.
I REALLY wanted the pond shot south of LaPorte and after a cloudless dawn was rudely interrupted by low level condensation clouds pushing off of Lake Michigan I was pretty sure I wasn't going to get it.
With help from Mike I knew they had work to do at LaPorte so I set up for a smoker of them going over the diamond with the NYC and hot annihilated by a last second cloud. Once I was south of the Central I started running hot and got this and a couple others.
We're on the Kingsbury Industrial Lead, former Nickel Plate.