My long-time, desire is to railfan the places on NS' Chicago Line and find the fun places to go. The fun places must have an affordable place to lay your head and get yourself rested for the next day's fun. There should be places to get a bite to eat, and that includes healthy choices. There should be places you can go around the area to easily, safely and legally access the tracks and shoot your videos. Most of all, the fun places must have lots of train action without having to wait hours to see a single train.
One of those places is the Porter-Chesterton area. The Chicago Line is said to have about 60 trains a day and, at times, that seems accurate. You will also see BNSF and CPKC hauling on these lines. You'll see a lot of NS intermodal trains, but you'll see the flat cars with rolled steel that comes out of the steel mills in Gary. You will see gondola cars with coal, and on the last trip two weeks ago, there was a west bound train with NS' new gondola cars. You might even see an NS Heritage locomotive, like the Lehigh Valley.
