An eclectic power lashup leads a loaded coal bucket west across the Illinois River.

An Alliance, TX, to Willow Spring, IL, Z-train (kind of) drops downgrade into Dahinda and over the Spoon River on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub. The train is roughly 165 miles from Chicago.

A monster North Platte to Proviso freight finally has their turn as they march off the remaining miles to their destination. The train crosses the Fox River in Geneva. This interesting structure w... (more)

A loaded coal train bound for Newton, IL, crosses the Illinois River at Beardstown. The train is working westbound (south) on the Beardstown line towards Centralia. There, the train will be interc... (more)

On a sunny afternoon along the Mississippi River, the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis' train 101 crosses the Merchants Bridge. The railroad's sharp pair of SD60I's provide the power on ... (more)

BNSF 5245 (C44-9W) leads a westbound freight along the BNSF Racetrack and across I-294, as seen from the air from Hinsdale, IL while the rest of the train is coming from Western Springs.

An eastbound South Shore coal train for Burns Harbor is seen flying over the Nickel Plate at Hegewisch. They're running long hood forward today as the east facers do not have PTC.

CTA's 6000 series cars are seen at Ashland & 63rd on the Green Line in Englewood.

UP 1983, the Western Pacific heritage unit, makes a Chicagoland appearance leading ITAG4 from Tacoma, WA, seen here rumbling over the Fox River in Geneva, IL on its way to a crew change in Proviso... (more)

KCS train M259, formerly MVNKC, is seen crossing the Illinois River at Pearl, IL.

CN 3315 Leads a five unit mixed freight from Kirk Yard in Chicago Illinois to Waterloo Iowa. Here they crawl through the Southside of downtown Chicago after rain went through the area

Golden Oldie over the Kankakee. It goes without saying that Warbonnet C44-9W #676 has seen much better days. I'm a sucker for the oldies (especially music), so to me, old and battered paint... (more)

The LSF54 local crosses the Vermillion River as it makes its was south through Pontiac heading back home to Bloomington.

A South Shore detour crosses the Little Calumet River on the IC main line headed for Matteson, Griffith and back to the South Shore at Stillwell.

It’s a hot and sticky afternoon in the Quad Cities region as a duo of IAIS GP38-2’s, 705 and 711 bring a PEDAV over the Rock River with a large grain train in tow. After crossing the river, th... (more)