The last CN/IC blue devil in active service on the CN roster leads CN A491 North through Joliet.

The last CN/IC blue devil in active service on the CN roster leads CN A491 West through Joliet.

Wheels waiting to roll
New wheels sit in the late afternoon sun, carefully stored for future intermodal car axle replacement inside Union Pacific’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal at Jolie... (more)

IC 1034 waits for its next assignment at Joliet Yard.

The sun has finally dipped below the horizon as BNSF 1755, a Bluebonnet SD40-2 puts the throttle into notch 8 as they thunder into the sunset westbound out of Joliet for Blodgett.

Y-JOL202 heads out of Joliet in last light with BNSF 1755, a Bluebonnet SD40-2 still wearing it’s Santa Fe colors leading. Seen here passing the historic Union Station and UD Tower, and on ‘ho... (more)

A Santa Fe doublestack train approaches the crossing with Iowa Interstate at Joliet Union Station on February 22, 1989. Leading the eastbound train is Santa Fe EMD GP60 No. 4014, along with a GE B... (more)

A Herzog MOW crew comes out onto main one and will be heading north to complete some track work.

After setting out cars on another track, BNSF 1060 shoves back onto another track to set out the IC 1034 and IC 1028 before going back to their train and onto Galesburg Illinois.

Its a beautiful afternoon as IC 1021 takes the day off.

IC 1010 and IC 1017 rolls up to the north end of Joliet Yard past 4 other IC SD70's to retrieve their cars prior to a run down the Illinois River line to Morris.

Built in May of 1973, The BLE 878 still performs service for CN Rail. In 2004 CN acquired the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad and now the 878 has found its way onto The "J". The face of... (more)

Four IC SD70's waits for their next assignment at Joliet Yard. Someone got creative at Woodcrest Shop and instaled some wooden numbers for the rear number boards on IC 1036.

A pair of IC SD70 makes up their train at the southend of Joliet Yard.

The outbound Texas Eagle arrives at Joliet around 20 minutes late on its trip down to the Great State of Texas.