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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 :)
Hoosier Creek is thoroughly engineered by beavers for their own benefit but also for their neighbors, the moose. I stop here at every opportunity, just to see who is about. On this day it was silent and colorful.
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.
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 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.
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.
Love climbing those mountain roads, especially when we reach the top! We’ve never been disappointed by the view.
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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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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Looking much different than the typical Amtrak trains that ply this line, Iowa Pacific's version of Hoosier State made for a neat sight. Here, at Brookston, IN, the northbound train for Chicago passes some buildings dating back to the early 1850's when the town was platted. Brookston takes its name from James Brooks the president of the New Albany & Salem railroad as it built through town.
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.
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.
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.
PEN32903 66752 'The Hoosier State' 6V59 0932 Tonbridge West Yard to Portbury Auto Terminal 6th April 2021 time 1533
Approximately half way home to Tell City, the Hoosier Southern stops in Lamar, IN to switch cars around. October 2017.
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.
World of Outlaws Late Model show car, featuring Hoosier tires. USA Nationals, Cedar Lake Speedway, New Richmond, Wisconsin.
The next day we headed to Tell City, IN to hopefully photograph the Hoosier Southern in action. We got lucky and caught them just as they were leaving Tell City for Troy. Seen here passing between a house and the Ohio River flood wall in their very nicely painted GP15-1.
Emergency Responder Vehicle Wrap by TKO Graphix, HDR Photography with multiple exposures combined to one.
The eastbound CF&E road freight bangs across Elkhart and Western's former NKP line in Plymouth with a nice Pennsylvania Railroad position signal to add a little pop.
It was high sun, but a quartet of EMD goodness doesn't care about sun angles in 2018.
On a beautiful Sunday evening in May, Iowa Pacific's Hoosier State is on the first leg of it's trip to Indianapolis. The train is seen here passing by the Amtrak locomotive servicing facility at 18th St. in Chicago, while "The Big Game" engine stands by.
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