Summerail Trip - 7

Hi, August 7 began in Linton, IN when the radio came to life and told a work crew that they would have to wait until the Switz City Turn cleared.

After a considerable wait, but not long enough for the fog to lift, the train appeared behind a pair of SD90/43 MACs (above and below) on the former Milwaukee Road track (north/south).

The train pulled south of the diamond about 1/2 mile and then proceeded to set out some cars on two side tracks (above and two below).

The train then backed around the connection seen on the left side of the second picture onto the former IC line (east/west), the engines ran around their train and they spotted some cars. The light power shown above has completed the job of spotting cars and is in the process of running around the train again, pushing back and taking the connection to the former Milwaukee. As this point we lost the train as it made it way south to the former Navy installation at Crane, IN.

After many false starts we got our next shot a few miles south of Linton on the northbound trip (above and below).

The train once again took the connection to the former IC,

ran around its train again,

and headed east for Switz City.

On arrival at Switz City it switched the yard on the east side of town (above and three below). As the light for east facing trains was getting poor we decided to check out the Indiana Southern.

A loaded Indiana Southern coal train was being re-crewed in Marco.

We chased it getting photos in Sandborn, IN,

south of Sandborn (above and below) and

at Edwardsport as it arrived at the power plant there (above and below).

Our final shots were of the westbound road freight sitting in Switz City waiting for a meet with its eastbound counterpart.

Thanks for looking.