The sun is just rising on what will be a warm August day, and the town of Rochelle,IL is barley awake as a WB UP intermodal thunders over the BNSF/UP diamond in Rochelle

EJ&E SD38-2 675 pulls out of KA Steel to hook back up to its train in Lemont.

On the former Santa Fe Transcon, Amtrak's Phase I 40th Anniversary unit leads the eastbound Southwest Chief as it crosses over Ellison Creek on a large railroad trestle east of Media on Feb... (more)

Clean "South Shore Freight" motors work at Burns Harbor in brilliant sunlight.

A hustling crew, manning the NS green locomotive, backs a broken down P42 unit into the Amtrak Locomotive Shop.

Amtrak Heritage Unit flies through Lemont on the Texas Eagle with a friendly engineer at the helm

These handsome CNW SD38-2s were among my favorite motive power on the railroad. Trouble was they were specifically ordered for hump and transfer duties in Chicago, so did not normally ventured ver... (more)

5pm on an expectedly cold February evening. Red line trains run almost back-to-back heading downtown.

BNSF 5222 heads south on the BNSF Aurora Sub.

With Moon rising Metra Westbound Burlington service train pulls into La Grange station.

Green line train toward the loop

Crossing the Cal Sag Channel, the T004X and its matching set of WSOR SD40-2's head east across the old Santa Fe at Nerska/LeMoyne.

EJ&E 660 leads the Walker local south through Crest Hill. Nice to see a J out on home rails.

Led by a former Amtrak SDP40F converted to a SDF40-2, the daily transfer between the Santa Fe's Corwith Yard and the IHB's Blue Island Yard after a classic Chicago snowstorm. Tom Golden photo.

CP SD60M 6262 leads G45 east through Franklin Park.