For the first time almost all April, the sun breaks out for a solid day as a good ole ATSF frieght-bonnet SD40-2 leads today's train in from St. Paul.

EJ&E 661 and 666 stroll back into Joliet with 6 hoppers on a mainly cloudy morning.

A weird detour move is taking this M-GALBRC down the BNSF main toward the CSXT where it will jump on and ride to the BRC, instead of getting right onto the Belt in Cicero. Of note is IC&E SD40-2 6... (more)

S-LAWNSA power heads to the house with a trio of GP60's and an SD9 as a coal empty shoots out of the city on main 1.

A pair of neat SD40-2's idle the night away in Cicero. A former ATSF SD40-2 with a 116' nose, and a BN white face SD40-2, with the now un-common white pin stripe variation.

The WC map unit rests all by her lonesome on this beautiful sunny afternoon at UP's Yard Center.

ICE SD40 217 is now one of 13 units that have been sent to this location for scrapping. In the background is ICE SD46 363, and SD40 203. All the units pictured are gone, probably by the time this ... (more)

Today's ICCR led by LLPX patch job 155 swings onto the east leg of the Yocum wye and hit the throttle as they grumble around the embanked curve and prepare to head North/Northeast toward Cedar Rap... (more)

ICE SD45 363 during its final days resting peacefully among fellow SD40's.

ICE SD40 221 now resides at Jabco scrapping, where in 2 or 3 days time, it will no longer exist. As you caan well see, the scrapping is under way, and this historic SD40 will soon be gone forever.... (more)

A pair of former BN GP50's, now owned by RailAmerica, assigned to the CBNS, and pooled by the CF&E.. lay over in IHB's Riverdale yard before departing eastbound back to Fort Wayne on CF&E's road f... (more)

A pair of former BN GP50's, now owned by RailAmerica, assigned to the CBNS, and pooled by the CF&E.. lay over in IHB's Riverdale yard before departing eastbound back to Fort Wayne on CF&E's road f... (more)

A tattered and torn CN GP40 leads IC 9621 on the daily turn from CP's Benseville yard to Hawthorne yard and back.

A CP local with SOO GP38-2 4426 idles along side what appears to be an extra WSOR grain train with the 25th anniversary unit in charge.

The Crandic Job departs Iowa City behind a quadruplet of SD38-2's, the leader being the newest addition still patched in LLPX blue and white. The train is passing the vintage Iowa City RI depot an... (more)