Gibson Junction: IHB vs NYC

(CRJ, John Haynes Track Diagram, Satellite)
NorthAmericanInterlockings:   Henry Wilhelm's photo below
Chicago and Northern Indiana Railroad Interlocking Towers (click the marker for the correct information)

Henry Wilhelm

Note that the long side of the tower was along the Michigan Central tracks and the stairsteps were on the east side of the building.

Satellite

The junction is east of IHB's Gibson Yard.

Satellite

When I fixed the satellite link for this image, I noticed that Google Map was updated with an image that had three different trains. The top train has a cute little industrial locomotive and is a private switching move inside Buckeye Terminals. The tanker train is on the connector between IHB's main and the Kankakee Belt.

Flickr from John W. Barriger III IHB Album

None of the following photos are old enough to catch the tower.

River Rail Photo posted

GenSet In The Snow. One of four 3GS21C locomotives built by National Railway Equipment (NRE) of 27 total manufactured, Indiana Harbor Belt IHB 2162 crosses the diamond near CP Gibson in Hammond, Indiana on the snowy evening of January 30, 2021. The [genset] locomotive uses three separate 700hp engines that can operate individually or together to generate a total of 2,100hp to operate on the former EMD frame. The Penn Central style CP Gibson sign adds a nice vintage effect to the scene. In 2023, all four of this type operated by IHB were scrapped.

Full resolution pics and prints: https://www.riverrailphoto.com/ihb/e3fb1bf04

River Rail Photo shared

Mike Lopez: They sat outside of the Gibson yard on a siding in Hammond off of 165th for a long time. I actually saw them being cut up there a couple of years ago.

Tait Alexander: They sucked, badly

Matthew Ginkel caught a circus train using the northwest connector. The IHB goes east/west through this junction and the NYC's Kankakee Belt goes north/south, but IHB operates the segment north of this junction.

Tom Golden caught a container train using the northwest connector. The coaling tower for Gibson Yard is in the background.

Tom Golden caught an autorack train with a mix of Conrail and Santa Fe power using the southwest connector to head south on the Egyptian line.

Arturo Gross Flickr 1995 Photo that includes a mother and calf pulling an eastbound around the curve to head north.

Arturo Gross Flickr 2018 Photo that shows a NS auto train approaching the junction from the north. No doubt it is headed to Gibson Yard just west of this junction because that was converted to the auto train yard for the entire Chicagoland area many years ago.