Back in time when we worked eight-hour days, the afternoon shift had some perks. Other than a lot of drinking afterward. Often after my 3-11 I could catch the EJ&E taking a train out of the refinery in Whiting, for Gary. Here's an example. EJ&E 851 getting ready to head to Gary on a fine 1996 evening.

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Amtrak's crack train, the Southwest Chief rolls into West Ethel, Missouri. The fall color was starting to appear here, back in October of 1994.

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Along the former Nickel Plate in Argos, Indiana.

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CSX move a hot car to the warehouse complex in Munster, Indiana. Things were a bit more colorful here in 2004.

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We are along the former PRR Ft Wayne line actually, in Hammond, Indiana. In the distance, the small City of Whiting begins to see some morning orange. A lady I worked with lived about three houses south of here. She told me that a lot of strange people tended to congregate here. I don’t doubt that. She didn't realize that this was the local Pennsy shrine.

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