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Welcome to the Indiana Harbor Belt archive. Rosters, historical information, maps and photographs are available here for those interested in the nation's largest terminal railroad (nearly 400 track miles).
2 cze 2020 · Indiana Harbor Belt SW1500 #1520, Slug PB1 and Caboose 35. About a month ago I came across these at the southeast mouth of the Indiana Harbor Belt Yard in Summit, IL. #1520 is an SW1500 dating to 1966. Slug PB1 was formerly an SW7, built in 1950 and converted to a slug in 1976. 70 years of service!
In 2019, IHB began repainting their lodomotive fleet in an orange-black livery resembling the very first paint scheme from the late 1940s. GP40P-2 4010 was a Southern Pacific bicentennial unit. At one time or another, nearly eighty NW2s wore IHB paint.
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The Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad (reporting mark IHB) is a Class III railroad [1] in the United States.
The Indiana Harbor Belt as we know it today was formed in 1907. The Chicago Junction Railway, a New York Central affiliate, had leased the East Chicago Belt Railroad and the Terminal Railroad in 1898, and had bought the Chicago, Hammond & Western Railroad in 1896.
Most of the photos on this site are from original photos/slides or submissions. Some photos are from the web - I have tried to get permission to use on all of them, but a few may have slipped through. Please, let me know if that has happened. This archive was first accessed Dec 6, 1999.
