Notes: This is the Bridge #198 interlocking looking West from Joliet Yard. The train is on the main track in the yard, and the track on the left is called the "coke oven", which is a leftover name from the old steel mill days in Joliet.

Notes: Notice the extra materials on the left deck of the bridge. These were left there to help distribute the weight more evenly on the bridge.

Notes: Located at the bottom of the Phoenix Hill District track.

Notes: Looking west just past Bridge 198. The switch and track leading from the main track to the right goes to the Romeoville Branch.

Notes: This yard is about halfway to the generator on the Romeoville Branch. Material Service loads these cars with stone for Peter Baker at Rondout.

Notes: The roundhouse was originally built with a total of 31 bays, but only the last 5 bays shown here are used in modern day.

Notes: These shots were taken from the road overpass at the South end of the yard looking North. The small red building is the switchman's building. The track that runs next to it on the right is the run through main track.

Notes: This building holds the offices for the dispatcher, EJ&E police, labor relations, and other administrative departments. Offices were also created downstairs for train crew members around the time of this photo, after they were moved from the old "White House" building.

Notes: Shot during a hazardous material cleanup project to remove radio active waste soil that was left on the property. A siding was built to hold specially outfitted cars that were used to transport the tainted soil. The soil was taken to a dump site in Utah where it was treated and disposed of. You can see the motorized unit that was used to move the cars in and out of the loader.

Notes: This shot shows the pit where all the tainted soil had been removed from the property. This was only 1/3 of the depth that it would eventually go to.

Notes: This was the crew building in Joliet Yard until they finished a new area for crews in the basement of the O&O building. The "White House" building was closed after that. When heavy rains came in the mid 90's, the creek that runs underneath the yard overflowed and the water almost flooded basement.

Notes: If you look about 8 feet in the canal you can see the indentations where the lock doors were mounted.

Notes: Located at what was originally the Rock Island crossing with the EJ&E. "The Rock" tower has been closed for years. These photos show the remnants of the control pipes that worked the switches from the tower. The track nearest the tower is the J main. The other track is the former eastbound main when it was a double main. That's now called the east end lead.

Notes: The first shot is approaching the entrance to Kirk Yard. Second and third shots show the West Gate Tower at Kirk Jct.

Notes: This tower stopped being used when the hump started being controlled by the computers in the East end building.

Notes: A distant view of the engine service area in Gary.

Notes: An ex DMIR road unit and EJ&E switcher are seen shoving cars up the hump for sorting.

Notes: The weight test car is used to calibrate the retarders for the hump yard.

Notes: Shots taken while delivering a coal train from Spaulding to the USS Gary Works Coke Facility.

Notes: Notice that the majority of bay doors have been bricked up. There are also some SW hoods sitting on the ground near the table.

Notes: This building houses the offices for Gary.

Notes: Waiting to go railroad East over the UP at West Chicago, with a train out of UP's yard. JB Tower is on the left.

Notes: The USS Coke Plant is in the background. The track on the left is called the East Dixie. The next track curving to the left with no cars is the lead to the River Yard. Looking straight ahead is the South Lead. The next track to the right is the North Lead. The track on the far right, running by the pile of coke goes to 'N' Yard, and the North or South side of the coke batteries. Many years ago this track would have also gone to the Tube Mill, long since gone. The yard engine takes 30 cars of coal, and sets them into the dumper. There are retarders in the dumper to hold the cars and control them as they're dumped one at a time.

Notes: This is looking West towards Eola Yard and Aurora. The North interchange track that runs up hill to the J main can be seen on the right.

Notes: At the Lakefront Line and outside Kirk Yard.

Notes: This is the farthest East you can go on the railroad. This track ends East of the USS Coke Facility in Gary Works. The Gary City Track to the South goes almost as far, but not quite.

Notes: Looking East at Pine Yard while passing over on an Eastbound J train.

Notes: Heading out of Joliet on the first train Eastbound, after a night of heavy snowfall. The old "Rock" tower can be seen off in the distance.

Notes: Still plenty of wildlife to be seen out on the less used parts of the main.

Notes: Numerous units belonging to Relco Locomotive Inc. are seen in temporary storage on the east side of the yard. The equipment from a coach car re-builder is also spotted outside the old EJ&E loco shop building.

Notes: Numerous locomotives are seen parked outside Relco's small shop. Many different types of units were brought back and forth to Relco on the EJ&E over the years. Quite a few J units even ended up here.

Notes: A slightly tired looking turntable from decades of use.

Notes: The original bridge operators building still stands, but the bridge is remote controlled by the DS in Joliet. Cameras can view river traffic.

Notes: This was the original main office for the railroad many years ago. It is now a fire station.

Notes: Numerous EJ&E units sit in the service area.

Notes: This is where hoppers are stored from coal trains that arrive at the coke facility. The cars are unloaded on the left.

Notes: This area is just East of the main part of the Mills, and is the Eastern most section of the railroad.

Notes: Passing by some work being done on the railroad.

Notes: As seen while going Westbound on a train back to Joliet. There also use to be an old Griffith Depot located at the diamonds in the old days.

Notes: This isn't located along the EJ&E RoW, but it's a place the J sends trains to. UP trains coming on at West Chicago come down through 'H' Yard and onto the CN/IC main to get to the generator. The large hole in the side of the building was from an explosion that had happened a few weeks earlier.

Notes: In this photo the power is looking North while backing up and getting ready to return to Joliet from Will Co. The loads that were dropped off are on the left and the empties to be pulled out are on the right.

Notes: An Eastbound train approaches work being done to replace the bridge at Hartsdale. The first shot is the 'Form B' yellow-red board, indicating the construction ahead. The next board is red, placed just before the work being done. The last board past the construction is green.

Notes: The new bridge had just been installed. This was the second train to go over it. A 10 MPH speed restriction was in place until everything checked out.

Notes: Fog ahead.

Notes: These are the lead-up bridges just East of Bridge 198. There are two builders plates... The one straight ahead on the main track was built in 1912. The one on the left was built in 1916.

Notes: The yard is full of coal hoppers outside the plant.

Notes: This is the very end of the line at what use to be known as Clay Pit. The line use to continue further on in the old days, towards Coal City.

Notes: The awesome old loco shop building, gone forever. The roundhouse can clearly be seen now from the road overpass.

Notes: #703, #656 and other J units sit in the pit at Gary.

Notes: Only a small number of bays remain open in the roundhouse. The rest have had their doors bricked over.

Notes: Offices of the EJ&E in Gary.

Notes: Some units are seen sitting in front of the roundhouse. The second shot shows the back side of the building.

Notes: SW1001 #444 sits in the pit area.