As the sun rises on a cold and frosty morning at the CN Yard a Kansas City Southern Locomotive that showed up the day before now sits tied down in the North Yard

77 years and still doing it's job

After 63 years of millions of tons of freight and the constant temperature changes, (as the ice crystals form on the rail) I suppose a little wear would be expected on these rails.

BNSF 5318 heads out of Joliet

An Early morning Southbound BNSF 719 with the old Sante Fe Warbonnet theme is giving her all shes got as it's about to pass by a Northbound CN 2401 heading for the yard while they have a small win... (more)

A Kasgro 122 Ton - 25’ Depressed Deck Flat Car sits at the CN yard, with a transformer. Kasgro is the builder of “World’s Largest Railroad Car” Their web site states; "From our twelve-axle... (more)

A once orange EJ&E 658 comes out of the south end of the Joliet yard sporting a new coat of CN red & black colors. It's reporting marks "E.J.&.E" are stenciled on the side.

Getting two trains across the Metra diamond at the early morning rush is a good thing for CN, but when one of them can only make 2 mph trying to get up the hill on snow & ice, that's a bad thing a... (more)

The crew of the WC 3018 is working on putting their train together, they even have a sign to prove it. This GP40 has been around the block a few times. It started life as Seaboard Coast Line R... (more)

IC 1000 backs up for another cut of cars while EJ&E 661 comes up North 15

Stretch em

Starting off on the the right track

Some remnants of The Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria Electric Line can still be found today, like this depot in Minooka. The Interurban was started in 1909 and was one of the states longest lines. The ... (more)

EJ&E 674 heads down North 7

EJ&E 674 idles at the scales