CSX 5201-568 bring a stack train through Blue Island on home rails as the sun begins to set, closing yet another summer day.

A pair of CSX GE's bring a solid train of containers through Blue Island on the IHB, passing one of the last remaining man operated crossing towers in the US.

An inbound Metra train departs Downers Grove for Union Station as the NSINTW passes westbound on the adjacent track.

Nearing it's terminus of Chicago Union Station after almost 300 miles, Amtrak 196 accelerates a 5 car Illinois Zephyr (380) out of La Grange after making a brief stop at the station in town.

Iowa Interstate 721 and slug unit 651 catch some of the days last sunlight as the venerable duo brings the BISW up to Broadway Street out of the shadows to reverse back into the siding with a cut ... (more)

The morning rush is beginning to pick-up on the BNSF 'racetrack' as an eastbound rolls through the Chicagoland suburb of La Grange with hotshot intermodal traffic. The leader, BNSF 1005 is sportin... (more)

BNSF 7901 leads a trio of GE products through the park-like town of La Grange with another mixed freight train, one of many that would pass by to prove this rail line's nickname 'the racetrack' tr... (more)

Amtrak 518 "the De Facto switcher" assorts some superliner cars on a wonderful August afternoon in downtown Chicago.

It is 0200 on a quite monday morning in Chicago, while out for night photography we came across Amtrak's yard to find a lone P42DC nestled behind a shop and crowded superliner cars.

Amtrak 817 leads The California Zephyr over Washington Street in the town of Downers Grove at speed while a BNSF M.O.W crew does some work on the crossing. In the background endangered CB&Q signal... (more)

A Norfolk Southern whitehead leads UP ZEMCH, a Triple Crown Roadrailer train towards Landers Yard at La Grange, Il on IHB trackage.