An extra Y JOL202 hustles west over Jackson Creek in Elwood with the fan favorite trio that's been ping ponging back and forth between Channahon and Joliet the past week.

What looks like a Union Pacific train from the 1980's is actually an Alton & Southern transfer job. The A&S "102" typically runs a turn between Gateway Yard and UP's 12th Street Yard in... (more)

Airline Empties. On December 4, 2019, BNSF Railway 8420 (SD70ACe, EMD) leads an empty coal train across the St. Charles Air Line in Chicago, Illinois. Chartered in 1852 as the Chicago, St. ... (more)

A pair of Illinois Central SD70's stroll across Bubbly Creek, making way across the Chicago & Alton Railroad bridge at CP Bridgeport. Constructed in 1908, the bridge was designated a Chicago landm... (more)

The Pepsi can schemed P42 shoves the City of New Orleans over the Pennsy lift bridge, shortly after crossing 21st Street. The train is completing the last leg of the journey to Chicago Union Stati... (more)

H BRCGAL heads west over the Fox River in Aurora, led by an old school Heritage 1 Dash 9.

Shortly after hitting the diamonds with the old Rock Island, Q116 makes its way across the muddy Hickory Creek in Joliet's east side.

Exiting the Pequot Branch in the unincorporated community of Mazonia, LSF54 slows to a stop over the Mazon River to allow the conductor and brakeman to make way to the head end. Leading the way is... (more)

A pair of Illinois Central deathstars lead the way of L509 as they cross Interstate 80 on the way into Minooka. Enroute from Joliet Yard to East Morris, the two veterans will spend the day working... (more)

Making their last run before being put into storage, KJRY 1750 stops for a few minutes with a westbound freight over the Spoon River with a photo opportunity for the many photographers chasing the... (more)

CEFX 6020, a former SOO SD60 leads U767 as it waits for a new crew to pick it up above Irving Park Road at Schiller Park to take it north on the Waukesha Subdivision.

Heading for a crew change at South Pekin, a Chicago & North Western freight skirts Peoria, Illinois, and crosses Kickapoo Creek in March 1984. The southbound train is powered by venerable EMD GP9R... (more)

Fresh after a 2 year hiatus in a storage, two of the four Iowa Interstate SD38-2 locomotives, along with a GP38, crawl over the Illinois River in Peoria with a long cut of grain & manifest traffic... (more)

Entering Illinois from Kentucky, a Union Pacific passenger train led by three freshly-rebuilt E9 A-B-A cab units, crosses the enormous Illinois Central bridge over the Ohio River at Metropolis on ... (more)

A Union Pacific manifest crosses the Fountain Creek bridge on the UP Chester Sub.