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Today in Michigan City ... Traffic lights active on Franklin. The 10th and Franlkin light is fully active. 11th and Franklin is flashing red. The bags are off all of the crossing lights in Michigan City - with gates reattached at all crossings. 20230715-11thSt-Franklin.jpg More curbing has been plac...

Every rail cam needs a cat ... this one jumped off the roof!

The tracks are the CSX line through Hammond where the West Lake line will cross over. 20230708-WLL-HammondGateway3.jpg The new substations are a different design than the brick buildings seen along the South Shore. This substation will serve the yard and the northern part of the West Lake corridor. ...

Photos of the work being done at the new Hammond Gateway station: 20230708-WLL-HammondGateway0.jpg 20230708-WLL-HammondGateway1.jpg 20230708-WLL-HammondGateway2.jpg The South Shore tracks will be relocated on the ground level on the stones. The West Lake corridor track will be on the embankment to t...

Elsewhere on the South Shore ... work continues in Miller on the bridge over Old Hobart Rd 20230708-Miller-OldHobartRd.jpg At Dune Park a fence has been added between the trail connector and the track 20230708-DunePark.jpg And every concrete worker's annoyance ... a section of sidewalk that was repl...

Michigan City ... Washington St brickwork continues. Yes, individually placed bricks! 20230708-11thSt-Washington1.jpg 20230708-11thSt-Washington2.jpg North of the station platforms the curbing is being placed for the surface parking lot. 20230708-11thSt-Parking.jpg Construction on the parking struct...

Miller ... Construction of the new platform and tracks are moving along. The station building is externally complete. To the west of the station 7th St is now open - Lake St at the station remains the last road crossing that needs a major rebuild (scheduled for August). 20230701-MillerStation1.jpg 2...

Michigan City ... After being closed for 17 months, Chicago St has been reopened to traffic. The road was closed on February 28th, 2022, along with the eastern part of 11th St (Wabash St to the east). (The intersection with Green St at the Amtrak tracks is closed but the Amtrak crossing has also reo...

Most of the reviews say the ride is far too short for the price... People don't understand what 3 miles in one hour means??? As long as they can sell tickets they will survive. Hopefully most riders understand the length of ride (both time and distance). They do warn people that the return ride is ...

I could see Gogo squeeze getting rail service, (think the spur is still in place there) However I have done track work for a few customers of GLC and and most didn't have good things to say about them. The spur is paved over on their property. Wouldn't be able to get there with the rails cut to pro...

Dune Park ... The new crosswalk is officially open and the old crossing has been barricaded. I didn't see a train this weekend but I'm looking forward to seeing the new lights in action. 20230625-DuneAcres1.jpg 20230625-DuneAcres2.jpg 20230625-DuneAcres3.jpg Elsewhere ... Signal installers were busy...

Michigan City ... Changes to the new traffic signals on 11th St. The second set of lights have been removed. Only the lights on the far side of each intersection remain. Pictures at Franklin, Washington and Wabash Sts 20230625-11thSt-Franklin.jpg 20230625-11thSt-Washington.jpg 20230625-11thSt-Wabash...

In Gary EJ&E 765 parked near Gary Metro has been cleaned up and repainted. It caught by eye when I drove by so I stopped and took a few pictures. While I was there one of the people involved in the clean up stopped by to take a look at the new paint. 20230527-EJE765.jpg The work is being done by "D...

Work began on the brick treatment for Washington St this week (and the lane divider south of 11th St). Scheduled as a three week closure. Green St kinda opened this week ... Amtrak still has their crossing blocked on Chicago St so Green is open to local traffic only. The concrete barriers have been ...

Elsewhere along the line --- 20230610-BeverlyShores.jpg One of the old platform signs has been mounted to the back of the station building at Beverly Shores. 20230610-GaryTaylorSt.jpg Taylor St in Gary (under I-80/90 Toll Rd) is getting a quick weekend update. This is a one weekend closure. 20230610...

Dune Acres (Mineral Springs Rd) on Saturday - Crossing construction completed. A lot smoother than the pre-construction crossing. 20230610-DuneAcres1.jpg 20230610-DuneAcres2.jpg 20230610-DuneAcres3.jpg Just east of the crossing a manual crossover between new Main 2 and the old Main (new North Bally ...

Michigan City on Saturday - Franklin St has reopened. (Washington has not yet closed.)
Fresh asphalt and vehicles crossing have not kept the bricks clean.

Not much to talk about this week. No new crossings reopened ... I'm thinking there might be a delay in asphalt again (which will affect the work in progress at Mineral Springs Rd if they can't get asphalt to fill in where they removed the crossing for the two new tracks). Gary: The first segment of ...

E&W's side of the story, from the Federal Register: According to E&W, until recently, it was the exclusive service provider on the Line, pursuant to a trackage rights agreement (Agreement) with FC. E&W states that the Agreement expired on March 15, 2023, and, on the same day, Patriot Rail Company, L...

I was under the impression that the sections the South Shore and Pioneer operated were simply leased while the one OOS segment from Dillion to Walkerton just sat not used (condemned bridge south of Dillon). The South Shore owns the track from the end of track south of Dillon to the north and into K...