Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Morning at Clark Road / Pine Junction - Gary, Indiana
7/24/2004
**WARNING! DO NOT RAILFAN HERE**
Since this video was taken, safety and security issues on the ground have changed. This location is no longer a safe and legal place to watch trains. Stay away! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
At the time this video was taken, railfanning was tolerated as long as one remained south of the CSX tracks and stayed out of the way of rail and truck traffic (and behaved oneself). This is no longer true. There is no longer any vantage point to photograph trains here from a legal location.
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After a week of master classes in Chicago, it was time to head for home. But there was time for one last stop ahead of the highway...
Amtrak’s Train 49, the "Lake Shore Limited" (New York-Chicago), appears, led by P42DC #12 and P42DC #156. The train is a mere shadow of its glorious ancestor, the “Twentieth Century Limited”.
After 11 trains and maintenance equipment, it was time to hit the road.
[All times Eastern Daylight Time because I did not reprogram the camera]
*Originally recorded on VHS-C videotape*
Morning at Clark Road / Pine Junction - Gary, Indiana
7/24/2004
**WARNING! DO NOT RAILFAN HERE**
Since this video was taken, safety and security issues on the ground have changed. This location is no longer a safe and legal place to watch trains. Stay away! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
At the time this video was taken, railfanning was tolerated as long as one remained south of the CSX tracks and stayed out of the way of rail and truck traffic (and behaved oneself). This is no longer true. There is no longer any vantage point to photograph trains here from a legal location.
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After a week of master classes in Chicago, it was time to head for home. But there was time for one last stop ahead of the highway...
Amtrak’s Train 49, the "Lake Shore Limited" (New York-Chicago), appears, led by P42DC #12 and P42DC #156. The train is a mere shadow of its glorious ancestor, the “Twentieth Century Limited”.
After 11 trains and maintenance equipment, it was time to hit the road.
[All times Eastern Daylight Time because I did not reprogram the camera]
*Originally recorded on VHS-C videotape*
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After previously catching trains at HM Junction and Butler Street, I pulled away to grab some lunch just in time to miss a southbound CSX rail train at the interlocking.
Quickly recovering, I drove south and caught the train as it passed Hamilton Depot, led by GP38-2 #2809 (Ex-Conrail #8273).
Hamilton Depot sits at the junction of the CSX (Chessie System/B&O/ Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton) Toledo Subdivision and the CSX (Chessie System/B&O/Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton/Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western) Indianapolis Subdivision, about 1/4 mile south of Butler Street Interlocking. The depot was an active B&O passenger station until Amtrak began operations on May 1, 1971. Under Amtrak, the depot was an on-again, off-again (currently off again) stop for the Cardinal.
As of 2020, CSX wants to tear down the depot after years of neglect. The City of Hamilton and local preservation groups are fighting to save it.
**Originally recorded on VHS-C videotape")
