Time to bring the rock sub-base.

L&N has a fleet of dumps to

do the job.

Time to bring in the heavy wrecker

This poor guy's having a really bad day..........

Indiana Red!!!

The Indiana Railroad is a major interchange customer with the SBS in Louisville and Indianapolis, so naturally we need a good showing of Indiana RR red on the soon-to-be-rebuilt SBS layout. At the moment they're all dressed up with nowhere to go... :(

Time for a little bridge work.

Concrete being poured for a single railroad bridge pier across SBS trackage.

Time for a little maintenance.

When the heavy rock work is done it's time to start hauling the extra dirt away.

It takes all kinds of equipment to build a highway.

Lets go to work and move some dirt!!

To make a flat road, hills are cut and valleys are filled.

L&N Construction goes to work!

It's a huge job to deliver and assemble this big dozer

The South Bend Southern Railroad runs near many urban areas, where new highways are almost always under construction of some kind. The L&N Construction Company is going to build a new highway...in 1/87th scale of course.

To move big dirt, you need big equipment. Here we see a huge Komatsu dozer being delivered to the job and assembled on site.

South Bend Southern and Indiana...

Time to put this pretty truck to work...

Now we know where it comes from.......

The New South Wind!

Amtrak has tried for years to revive it's Chicago-Florida passenger service and with help from the SBS, the New South Wind heads to Louisville and points south with a train full of vacationers looking for fun and sun...

New SBS paint scheme...

The SBS has taken delivery of two refurbished SD 38s in their new corporate paint scheme.

It's road time again!

One last corn photo!

Lunchtime!

It's "fertilizer time" :)

Corn pickin' time

The road is open!!

Just in time for the 4th of July Holiday, the new road is open. Here we see some of the traffic while a SBS work train crosses in the backgound. Stay tuned for a new feature called Lunchtime at the SBS for more photos of traffic taken from this great rail/truck fan location.

Crane time!

Are we doing this right?

CSX on SBS

Several railroads have trackage rights on the SBS. This empty CSX coal train heads home to Kentucky behind a pair of GE Dash-8s for another load of low-sulphur coal for mid-western electric power plants.

The industrial mid-west these days is corn and cars. Auto maufacturers have moved south into Indiana, Kentucky and points south. Here we see a SBS long-distance local moving auto parts boxes south from Michigan to assembly plants in Kentucky.

corn, corn and more corn...

At harvest season, anything that can haul grain is pressed into service...

Lunchtime at the combine!