A pair of IC SD70s lead CN L536 South through Flossmoor.

IC 1022 leads four other units on the L515 as it exits the Mainline of Mid-America on its trip to Kirk Yard in Gary Indiana.

On a beautiful clear blue sky afternoon in the South Suburbs, CN L536 clips on south on the CN Chicago Subdivision with a trio of IC SD70’s. IC 1000, 1019 and 1004. Seen here heading through Oly... (more)

In August 1978, my father and I drove down to Beaverville, Illinois from Chicago to see the former N&W RS11s on the then recently formed Kankakee, Beaverville, and Southern. On our way there, we ... (more)

CN A407 passing through Farina with an IC SD70 in the lead.

Nothing says history like the old Illinois Central (now amtrak) station depot in downtown Kankakee. With this, two IC SD70s lead a wayfreight south towards Centralia on a crystal clear afternoon

A408 heading South through Paxton as snow flurries begin to fall.

A408 from Kirk Yard headed South down the IC mainline with a mixed bag of power.

IC SD70 1010 leads CN L515 South through Matteson.

Awaiting the call to their next assignment at Canadian National’s Woodcrest Locomotive Shop are Illinois Central SD70 1034 and CN ES44AC 2881. (Woodcrest used to be an IC facility before CN acq... (more)

A switch crew has a caboose and two extremely beaten-up gondolas in tow.

The daily freight to Tuscaloosa and Artesia approaches the yard limits behind GP38-2 9613 (bought new by the merged company), assisted by an ex-IC GP40 and an ex-GM&O GP30. That GP38-2 - built in... (more)

Illinois Central’s SCMI freight operating from Chicago to Memphis, Tennessee, passes the old station and grain elevators at Buckley, Illinois, on January 21, 1989.

With a severe thunderstorm looming in the background, three IC “Deathstar” SD70s fly north on home rails, seen here passing the old IC steam coaling towers in Gilman.

An Illinois Central Gulf freight train passes through Decatur, Illinois, on a very gloomy day in March of 1984. Both locomotives are painted in ICG’s orange and white paint scheme carried over f... (more)