A Michigan City bound South Shore Freight is seen in La Porte on the Kingsbury Branch, south of the Norfolk Southern crossing at Wire. Jeff Stupar photo.
CSS 2000 passes a pond south of La Porte, Indiana with 50 tank cars heading for storage in Kingsbury, Indiana. Nice to see some countryside running without wires!
CSS AF-4, led by CSS 2005, heads past CSS PF-10, led by CSS 2000, in the Gary, Indiana neighborhood of Miller. The AF-4 is heading to the BRC while the PF-10 was heading to the City Track to inter... (more)
CSS PF-10 charges through Gary, Indiana on the old EJ&E city track as it heads to interchange cars with CSX. Gary was getting lake effect snow dumped on it.
CSS 2000 (GP38-2) leads CSS AF-4 westbound down 11th street in Michigan City, Indiana as conductor Matt waves on. Here it passes the original Michigan City CSS station on its way to the BRC.
With South Shore's freight roster consisting of 2-D-D-2s and leased former C&O and FEC Geeps, the decision was made by management to acquire a fleet of new GP38-2s to replace their aging fleet. T... (more)
"South Shore Freight" motors are en route to their work assignment at Bailly Town, near Burns Harbor, as they cruise down 10th street with a high green ahead.
South Shore's class unit GP38-2 #2000, and two other locomotives ease a coal train bound for Arcellor Mittal onto the North Side at CP 46.5. This area known as Bailly or Baillytown, is quite a bus... (more)