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A couple of months ago I was asked to produce a menu for the 140th anniversary at the company where I'm based. The company was founded in Indiana. I have zero knowledge of their food but this sandwich is what came up most often when Googled :)
This handle on our Hoosier cabinet has unlatched the door countless times since it was built in the 1930's. A part of our family for only 30 of those years, it is a reminder of the endurance and timelessness of well built things. Happy Macro Monday.
INRD's Shuffle Creek trestle, over the backwaters of Lake Lemon witnesses the eastbound Senate Avenue-Hiawatha Yard train.. Heavy with Indy stack traffic for CN, the railroad has slowly transitioned from coal hauler to intermodal, as its primary traffic across the east/west mainline.
Ran across this nicely painted Victorian the other day on the west side of South Bend. Good to see that brick street as well. Sorry about the litter.
The Indiana makes one of its final appearances on the Hoosier Sub with this Louisville-bound freight at Miller's Curve, near Saltillo on the former Monon.
The line was embargoed weeks later and the line is no longer used by either INRD or CSX.
The corn was green, and the sky was blue as I rolled the Jeep along on a quiet Indiana road a few miles outside of Indianapolis.
Being a connoisseur of corn storage, I'm always on the lookout for a quality grain bin. Luckily, Indiana has hundreds of examples of these storage bins scattered throughout the landscape, each waiting patiently to have its portrait taken.
If I'm lucky enough to spot a good one, all it takes is veering off the road like an idiot, stopping in the road ditch, and then hopping out with the camera to grab a photo.
These bins were nice enough to have a parking lot across from them, so the daredevil factor for a capture was for once low.
Olympus E-M1 Mark II
Olympus M.12-100mm f/4
From the archives and taken on 23 May, 2017 from a friend’s backyard outside of Corydon, Indiana. Of the hundreds of eagles that I have been blessed to see, and of the thousands of photos captured…this is one of my favorites. For a couple of reasons.
When she told me that she had an eagle’s nest in her neighbor’s backyard, I wrongfully assumed that she was mistaken and it was ospreys. Several times over the past fifteen or so years I have been led to areas based on a misidentified species. When I pulled up in her driveway, this fellow was waiting for me in view and in perfect light. Maybe a first for this kid when receiving an eagle lead.
Secondly, most often I have to hike, boat, climb and place my carcass in all kinds of predicaments to get an eagle shot. In this case, the three of us, my friend, her husband and I walked out to the middle of the backyard, chatting all the way. I took several shots of this magnificent male, then we walked back to their deck where we all enjoyed a beer. The eagle was still perched as photographed when I departed.
One of Amtrak's long distance trains is about to be shoved through the car washer as Iowa Pacific's Hoosier State backs into CUS after turning on the wye. The short-lived venture seemed like it was too good to last, and unfortunately it was. Thanks, IPH management!
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A pair of South Shore Line GP38-2s had a westbound transfer for CSX's Barr Yard approaching Clark Road back in 2004.
We couldn't believe how green the Turkey Run Hollow was on this morning in August 2025, reminding us of the green surrounding the hills of Loch Ness a few years ago. This was our third trip to Turkey Run and it was clearly the most beautiful.
While on vacation a couple of weeks ago I was able to get trackside for a few shots of the Indiana Railroad. Here the Baker Turn passes through Keller, Indiana with a pair of SD40-2's INDR 4002 and 4005.
A pair of SLRG GP40FH-2's lead Amtrak 850, The Hoosier State north on the UP Villa Grove Subdivision in Dolton Illinois
CSX C40-8W 7797 and C40-8 7612 were screaming eastbound on the former B&O at Wellsboro in 2000.
Fall colors were just starting to turn along the Garrett Subdivision and a pair of clean YN2 GEs were looking pretty decent in the early morning light.
“Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?”
― Walt Disney
Shortly after launching out into the Ohio River yesterday morning, I noticed an odd ripple a mile or so up stream. The water much calmer than normal and the air still causing the ripples to stand out in the morning sun. I pushed the throttle forward and placed my right knee against the steering wheel to maintain course as I attempted to unpack my camera bag with my “good” arm.
As I closed the distance between us, I realize that it was a small group of deer…three doe and one buck. They were crossing the river at a point where it was easily a half mile across, the speed at which they were doing it was impressive. Seeing their noses just inches from the surface reminded me that any waves from my boat would make their trek more difficult. I cut my motor a long distance away and began taking a few photos.
Reflecting on the experience now, I realize that even the deer in this area understand that the IU Hoosiers are going to have a kick ass basketball team this year…reason 267 to leave Kentucky for Indiana!
BTW…Deer are excellent swimmers and can swim up to 15mph…thus the ripples.
Adventure before dementia!!
Kansas City Southern SD70ACe 4152 leads Iowa Pacific's 'Hoosier State', Amtrak train 850, out of Chicago at 18th Street. To the left, a Metra Southwest Service train is outbound towards Orland Park.
The KCS unit must have been roaming CSX territory, because it piloted the previous day's 'Cardinal' after engine trouble with the Amtrak power.
Iowa Pacific's 'Hoosier State', Amtrak train 850 to Indianapolis, scoots out of Chicago Union Station on a snowy evening with a pair of IPH's GP40FH-2s on the point.
In the late afternoon sun, the Louisville - Mitchell local eases past MP 264 between Leipsic and Orleans on the former Monon.
This was to be my final "keeper" shot on the Hoosier Subdivision. The Indiana RR pulled the plug on their trackage rights trains a week or so later, and CSX called it quits not long after.
R.I.P.
TPWs Lafayette Turn rockets through Brookston, IN with a 5-pack of TPW power. Always nice to see the older power cruising down the former Monon mainline.
A pair of former Burlington Northern SD70MACs plod along CSX's Garrett Subdivision at Wellsboro in 2001.
Now working for BNSF, the matched MACs had a mile-long train filled with Powder River coal. The classic former Baltimore & Ohio signals had been replaced with that generic thing by this date, something that I unfortunately did not get shots of when they stood here.
A Clark Environmental truck passes a Vanderburgh Co. Indiana Sheriff somewhere in Hoosier Country.
1:64 Greenlight
2008 Ford CVPI
Vanderburgh County Sheriff
1:64 Die Cast Promotions
Freightliner Columbia
Clark Environmental
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No... not really but Iowa Pacific 4137, one of the locomotives used for the Hoosier State trainset chills on Chicago Terminal trackage as it waits to be stored with various other equipment from Iowa Pacific.
Unfortunately, after a year and a half, Iowa Pacific's version of the Hoosier State is being discontinued primarily due to severe financial issues hurting the company.
I love the way a fresh hay field looks, so neat and tidy.
I couldn't decide to post the zoomed version or the distance shot, so I posted them both.
Here is a bit of info on the Hoosier Boy boat.
www.lesliefield.com/boats_teams/1909_hoosier_boy.htm
I am not real sure why these chairs are so HUGE. There are quite a few scattered along the Ohio River.
Hard to imagine a more picture-perfect rural midwest scene than this, as the Hoosier Southern trundles though Schley, Indiana.
A few years ago a friend of mine sent me a ton of photos from the Hoosier Subdivision. We found them this week as we were looking through back up hard drives. I guess snowy and cold days are good for something.
One of the few remaining B&O dwarf signals in the Chicagoland area protects the Hoosier State as train 850 bangs across the CSX and IHB tracks at Dolton. The fresh updated lettering on GP40FH-2 4135 looks fantastic. I hope this venture is very successful in the coming months. Now, if only I can find a reason to actually WANT go to Indianapolis so I can patronize this train. It certainly wouldn't be for a Colts game. This Baltimoron can't do that.
This was north of Corunna, Indiana on US 6. I thought it had been torn down but last week I went by and realized it had been very remodeled. The Google Street View shows it as abandoned until the 2013 view but by 2018 it is in use again. There were piles of tires in front of it so still some kind of garage. From the windows here, I am guessing it was built in the 20's or 30's.
Now called Hillbilly Tire:
Amtrak 35 leads the Hoosier State east out of Chicago, IL. Behind the usual consist are three P42s and 25 private cars for the New River excursion train.
N281CE, an Israel Gulfstream G280, on approach to runway 24R at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario.
It was arriving from Santa Ana, California and it departed soon after for Teterboro, New Jersey.
Serial number 2243 is one of three Gulfstream G280s operated by Cummins Inc. of Columbus, Indiana.
CE = Cummins Engine Company, the corporation's original name.
Cummins received its first Gulfstream over 60 years ago when a Grumman G-159 Gulfstream I (serial number 89) was delivered as N789G on June 20, 1962.