Time for more utility work--high up this time!

Final grading...pavement coming soon!

Final grading of the rock sub base is the final step before paving.

Highway construction continues

Part of the highway job is making sure all the needed utilities are where they need to be. These storm water pipes are being installed to make sure the rain water flows away from the highway.

Here comes the rock!

Loading and dumping and loading and dumping.

Building a retaining wall

The highway needs to have a connection to the local surface street--so here we see a crew putting up the retaining wall for the highway off-ramp.

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...