NorthAmericanInterlockings: (RN) Dan Manners 1987, Ron Stuckey, Randy Olson 1987, R.J.Allen 1984, Frank Garon Collection
Chicago and Northern Indiana Railroad Interlocking Towers (click the marker for more information)
I added the rrIHB label because this part of the Kankakee Belt was operated by IHB. Just west of this junction was an IHB Osborn Yard and a NKP Osborn Yard.
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| Tim Shanahan shared Steven J. Brown's photo Nickel Plate 765 on home rails crossing the IHB at the long gone Osborn Tower. This is a deadhead move to Fort Wayne after a weekend of CNW excursions out of Chicago. September 9, 1985. |
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| Bill Molony posted Indiana Harbor Belt NW2 #8835 meets AT&SF B23-7 #6351, GP20 #3067 and GP39-2 #3648 at Osborn Tower, Hammond, on October 8, 1982. [A reminder that the Kankakee Belt interchanged with Sante Fe in Streator, IL] Bill Molony posted again Indiana Harbor Belt NW2 #8835 meets Santa Fe B23-7 #6351, GP20 #3067 and GP39-2 #3648 at Osborn Tower in Hammond on October 8, 1982. Bill Molony posted Michael Riha So the Santa Fe is coming from/going to Streator on the Kankakee Belt? |
Please visit this Flickr photo because this 1985 photo of the Osborn Junction still has the junction tower.
Osborn Junction sees Milwaukee/SOO trains because Milwaukee switched from their Chicago, Terre Haute & South Eastern route to NYC's Egyption route.
Another Flickr picture shows a Milwaukee train on their original Chicago, Terre Haute & South Eastern (page 61 of Trainwatcher's Guide) route near Faithorn.
Update: Steven posted a higher resolution copy of his photo:
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| Stven J. Brown posted |
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| Peter Zimmermann posted Norfolk Southern train "34J" from IHB Blue Island yard to Bellevue Ohio runs through Dolton junction. [The following comment is why this photo is on the Osborn Junction page instead of the Dolton Junction page.] Larry Amaloo 34J starts off at IHB Blue Island Yard in Riverdale Illinois, it then proceeds east towards Gibson and then heads north on the Kankakee Line to the Chicago Line at CP 502. East from there it goes to Elkhart, makes a set out and then heads to its final destination of Bellevue Ohio. Also, there is 2 connections between the NS Chicago District and IHB Kankakee Line at Osborn. If they did not have to go to Elkhart, they would go south at Gibson, and then east at CP Osborn. |
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| Mike Breski posted
Osborn tower, at the crossing of the Kankakee Line and NS's ex-NKP main. It was demolished in the 1980s.
Photo by Daniel Kleine.
Osborn Tower, Hammond Indiana
The Holy Ground
Osborn is an interchange point between what was originally the New York Central and the Nickel Plate Road, about 2.5 miles east of downtown Hammond, Indiana near the village of Hessville. The following photo taken in July, 1974.
Dennis DeBruler  https://www.google.com/.../@41.5915946,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3 |
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| Thomas Bowers posted N&W #203 at Osborn Jct. N&W Chicago Dist. 1988 Craig Cloud What units NW ordered have dual control? |
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| Bob Lalich 1988 Flickr N&W 1218 Hammond, IN N&W 1218 approaches Osborn Tower, 6-88. [This is probably a steam exhibition run where the fireman deliberately made black smoke for the railfans by adding too much coal to the fire.] |
Marty Bernard posted three photos with the comment:
MILW SD40-2 139 built as MILW 3009 in Jul. 1972 with caboose 992094 passing ____ Tower in May 1986, Karl Miller photo. Need help with tower name and location.Joel Sieracki commented:Osborn Jct in Hammond. Southbound on the Conrail (NYC) Danville Line crossing the NS (NKP).Note, I'm beginning to digitize and post the slides of railfan Karl Miller who left us in April.
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Matt Baliteqicz posted the question: "I figure this is a good place to ask this current railroad question. It's a rather specific question regarding the increased usage of a spur ( I believe the railroad term is a Y) in Hammond. The spur is the IHB spur that crosses Osborn Street in Hammond. I'm sure avid railroad people can look it up. It's the northernmost track of that section. It connects two sets of Norfolk Southern tracks I think. For years it was a very quiet piece of track, mainly used by IHB to park cats out of the Ford plant in South Chicago. The last few years have seen a massive increase in traffic. We see stacks and tankers. Can anyone provide some details?"
John Friedmann: The connection was upgraded by NS and IHB to provide better routes for crude oil, ethanol and intermodal trains. Crude oil is down, but the rest continues.
Matt Balitewicz: John Friedmann thank you. Canadian National locomotives usually pull the tankers. BNSF locomotives pull trains too, although I not sure that's indicative of the railway operating the train.
Rod Truszkowski: The term is wye.
Rick La Fever: Now I can tell you one more story. Around 1953/54, my father hired out on the Harbor.
One of the jobs he worked was the Osborn Switcher.
When he did it, it was an all night thing. On the south side of 165th Street, off of the Osborn Wye, there was Keyes Fiber(now Huhtamaki). After crossing Indianapolis Boulevard the track skirted the site of Woodmar Shopping Center. Behind that area was Swift Chemical plant, not sure what they made there but it smelled acidic. Next up was the Northern Indiana Public Service storage yard, power poles and transformers. Finally at the very end of the spur was the Pullman Standard Wheel Works (almost right on top of Columbia Avenue).
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