Erie Lackawanna 1022 coupled to a line of freight cars, perhaps doing pull n' push switching duties on the north end of EL's Hammond Indiana flat yard. The once constant around-the-clock switching movements certainly kept downtown Hammond's street crossing watchmen busy.

Today, excepting the Carley's Mayflower Moving & Storage building seen behind the Borden Dairy, the now abandoned yet still in place Monon RR right-of-way seen on the extreme right side of this 1971 photograph? All gone, even any evidential traces of a railroad that had once carried a strong presence in NW Indiana, the Erie Lackawanna.