Eastern Railroad Discussion > NS west of Elkhart

Following my previous thread:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,3528590

There weren't as many freights west of Elkhart but still plenty of delays.

1. I was disappointed this shot wasn't better focused because I love that signal! West end of Elkhart yard.

2. West of LaPorte, IN.

3. This was another 3 train meet in the background.

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4. New crossover going in.

5. Passing a CP rack train.

6. Crossing over again.

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7. New bridge.

8. Industry work.

9. Gary depot looking pretty tough.

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10. Nice signal bridge.

11. I was happy to catch the bottle train at one of the steel mills.

12. And this plant switcher.

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13-15. Passing freights.

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16-18. Another source of delay was single tracking on the Calumet River lift bridge.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/14 19:07 by AndyBrown.

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19-20. Alas, I wasn't able to get very good shots of this BRC job coming out of 95th St. (I think)

We made the connection to #5 with about 15 minutes to spare.

Thanks for looking!

Andy

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Pretty neat stuff!

I like it!

Thanks for sharing. It definitely looks like some capacity improvements are in progress.

Cool pics! Like that perspective.

Great pictures.

The bridge in pictures 16-18 is what the PRR referred to as "River Branch", which spans the Calumet River.
The interlocking protecting the bridge is CP 509.
"South Branch" is the bridge just south of C.U.S over the South Branch of the Chicago River.

While on the subject of bridges, the ones in picture 13 are over the Indiana Harbor Ship Canal.
The interlocking is "Hick", which in NYC and PC days was called "HC".
The CSX train is probably from the BRC Connection at CP 509 and headed towards CP 501 which is picture 10. The connection
to the Garrett Sub is off to the right.

The BRC job looks like one of the "South Chicago Jobs" taking headroom towards "The District"
to put its train away in Commercial Ave. Yard.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/22/14 11:43 by Englewood.

Cool Photos. But in #4. That would not be a very good thing if the DS for got that the rail was not in and switch the train over.

Dewman45 Wrote:
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> Cool Photos. But in #4. That would not be a very
> good thing if the DS for got that the rail was not
> in and switch the train over.

Don't worry, that crossover and those signals are probably not even on the DS's display yet.
The switches are wedged, spiked, secured in the normal position.
Before the dispatcher will be given control of the switches the Signal Dept. will do
an immense amount of testing to ensure that the signals display correct aspects over
the switches and reflect block occupancy as well as traffic locking to the next interlocking.
All that testing will require a lot of time which will mean a substantial delay to traffic for a
few days during work windows.

Neat stuff, nice coverage. That last one looks like an HO layout! === === = === JLH

Interesting stuff...!!! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks everyone for the kind remarks and Englewood for the additional information. I should've known that about the bridge name. I corrected the caption.

Andy

Yes, great stuff in both posts!

-Tom

Englewood Wrote:
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> All that testing will require a lot of time which
> will mean a substantial delay to traffic for a
> few days during work windows.


Told you so!