Dope Catches On My Birthday At Griffith, IN And Pine Junction, 4-13-10.

Heres a ton of cool stuff out in Northwest Indiana on my b-day. A second compilation will follow this one with shots at Blue Island later in the evening.

The first stop I made was at Griffith Junction, an all CN junction where the Former EJ&E Eastern/Matteson Subdivision crosses over the GTW Elsden Subdivision. In the old days, C&O and Erie mainlines ran through here. An EJ&E branch to Porter Junction and a Conrail branch to Joliet were here too. Most of the tracks for the C&O and Erie are gone, with a small segment of the Erie remaining to the North which served as an industrial spur for the EJ&E. The spur is now abandoned since the switch was removed between it and the main. A segment of the C&O still remains to the South in active service as a spur leading to an industrial site. A tower once stood between the EJ&E and GTW, but was moved North of the junction after it was closed. Now it belongs to the Griffith Historical Society along with the old GTW depot, some EJ&E cars, a speeder, and other relics.
9:20AM-
The first train to roll through the junction was on the CN/EJ&E, Westbound Stateline empties.
CN C44-9W #2614
IC SD70 #1010

10:26AM-
Over an hour later, an Eastbound manifest on the GTW gets the light over the EJ&E.
CN C44-9W #2599
CN SD75I #5704

10:41AM-
A land barge takes the connector from the EJ&E to the GTW.
CN SD70M-2 #8808
CN C44-9W #2304

11:07AM-
A C44-9W with a nice horn brings a train from the GTW to the EJ&E.
CN C44-9W #2632
CN SD60F #5504

12:29PM-
I later met up with Larry at Pine Junction which is where it really started to pick up. Light CSX power from Kirk Yard rolls down into NS Pine Yard to pick up some cars.
CSXT SD60I #8727
CSXT C40-8W #7772

12:31PM-
Definately one of the better catches of the year happened to be today with an all Conrail EMD consist blasting East on a manifest, RS3L and all.
NS SD50 #5419
NS SD60I #6794

12:38PM-
A not so exciting consist leads a coal drag from the BNSF East.
BNSF ES44AC #5741
BNSF SD70ACe #9335

12:43PM-
Y123 arrives with a long hood forward GP15T in the lead.
CSXT GP15T #1511
CSXT GP15T #1522

1:04PM-
Amtrak Wolverine 352 cruises by at a slow speed due to track work further East.
P42DC #37
NPCU #90215

1:19PM-
CSX light power takes the NS West with an awesome leader, horn, and crew.
CSXT C40-8 #7553
CSXT SD40-2 #8853
CSXT ES40DC #5413

1:34PM-
A Westbound manifest clears CP 499 at Pine.
NS C40-9W #9135
NS C40-9 #8775

1:45PM-
NS #2714 still leads the B09 job that picks up coils from East Chicago.
NS SD70M-2 #2714
NS C40-9W #9641

1:51PM-
A nice duo of EMD power leads a manifest East on the B&OCT.
CSXT SD60I #8732
CSXT SD60 #8599

1:58PM-
Stacks race West to Chicago on the NS/NYC.
NS SD70M-2 #2740
NS C40-9W #9156

2:11PM-
A quad-pack of BNSF DC GEVOs seems a bit lost as they run light West.
BNSF ES44DC #7354
BNSF ES44DC #7617
BNSF ES44DC #7603
BNSF ES44DC #7539

2:28PM-
A CP trackage rights train heads to Chicago with a couple interesting cars at the rear. Brand new Utah FrontRunner Bombardier cab cars #116 and #122.

3:05PM-
A manifest eases by with some good power trailing.
NS C40-9W #9720
NS SD60 #6130
NS C40-9W #9558
NS SD70M-2 #2659

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[BoxcarFrank]

Thanks to everyone!

[AliceInChains243]

Happy Birthday dude, looks like the trains worked with you.

Awesome seeing that "Fightin' Fifty" leading that blue 60I at Pine.

[BoxcarFrank]

@AliceInChains243 I know freaking amazing right?

[JoaoT805]

dont forget to change the date to 09 not 90.

otherwise great stuff as usual.

[BoxcarFrank]

LOL I'm so used to putting 90 after it since that was when I was born.

[mona6302]

2304 is a gevo, what part of a gevo and a dash-9 is the same.

[railfankasey]

@BoxcarFrank not amazing.. EPIC!

[AliceInChains243]

@BoxcarFrank Yeah, last I heard, there are only 200 blues on Norfolk Southern, that was killer that you bagged the right one on the right end.

[rockguitarist946]

you keep freaking seeing that CR SD50/SD60M all-blue lashup! you're making me jealous! also, what does "dope cathces" mean?

[BNSF2184]

happy b-day Frank, I hope it sucked! hahahaha that CN 2632 had a nice horn, better than that canadian K3 shit lol

[JoaoT805]

haha yeah. happy birthday by the way.

[BoxcarFrank]

hmmm I thought I hit IHB cops. You talk so much shit but yet you still watch all my videos. Strange...