Canadian National's Peoria Local stops in South Pekin, IL to pick up a few hoppers from the siding on its way back south to Decatur, IL. In the foreground is some irrigation equipment used to wate... (more)

Just out of its 5:30pm stop at Burlington, IA, Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr heads uphill out of the Mississippi River valley crossing 5th Street in downtown Burlington. Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P42DC
Location: Burlington, Iowa, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK6
Train ID: AMTK5
Photo Date: November 02, 2010

Just underway from Dallas Union Station, the Trinity Railway Express is headed for Fort Worth. The train is passing the famous triple underpass, with Dealy Plaza in the background, very near to th... (more)

Heading into the low sun, a BNSF empty coal train rumbles west near Kewanee, IL, passing under one of the remaining original CB&Q signal bridges that are beginning to disappear from the BNSF lines... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr rolls through a patch of golden aspen trees high in the Colorado Rockies near Tolland, CO.

As the sun sets over the rails of the Union Pacific's busy four-track mainline west of North Platte, a coal load rolls east through Hershey, NE.

As rush hour begins, three trains meet at the CTA's Tower 18 on the northwest corner of the Loop. A rush hour only Purple Line train speeds north as a Brown Line train waits to follow it. A Green ... (more)

The summer sun begins to dip below a few clouds on the horizon as a few locomotives are shuffled around in the Proviso Diesel Ramp. In the mix is a newly rebuilt SD60M, the 9908.

At dusk on a warm summer evening, lightning bugs, or fire flies, begin to rise from an Illinois corn field as a Union Pacific freight train rolls by in the distance.

Morning fog hangs over the Chicago skyline and the giant Willis Tower as CN/IC train M338 rounds the corner at 35th St.

With the wind chills hovering around -20F, an eastbound Union Pacific stack train moves under the coaling tower at Nelson, IL.

A frigid night in Hodgkins, IL, at the east end of BNSF's Willow Springs intermodal terminal, finds a freight train lighting up the snow covered landscape as it creeps off of the Indiana Harbor Be... (more)

Celebrating the Chicago Blackhawks first Stanley Cup win since 1961, a ticker-tape parade makes its way down Washington St. in Chicago's Loop. The huge crowd goes crazy as the buses carrying the p... (more)

As the sun begins to sink in the western sky, its rays are scattered by a batch of passing clouds as a BNSF coal train rumbles east towards Chicago.

A brilliant and colorful sunset lights up the sky behind the Norfolk Southern lift bridge over the Calumet River in South Chicago, IL. The bridge on the left is the only one of the three with an a... (more)