Freshly repainted Milwaukee Road 1603 sits on display outside IRM's engine shops.

Freshly repainted CB&Q 9255 sits on public display during Illinois Railway Museum's "Diesel Days."

UP DD40 6930 with Mike Abalos' S5 mounted and ready, awaits its turn in the parade of equipment at the Illinois Railway Museum.

AMTK 90218 sits awaiting repairs after a fiery collision with a semi in Michigan. Whats neat is the fire burnt off all the Phase V paint on the side revealing the Phase III scheme once again.

IAIS 712 sits out this calm summer evening awaiting the next day's choirs.

A pair of black and whites leads today's M337 out of Hawthorne in superb evening light as IC 1032 splits a pair of signals as it descends the hill out of Cicero through Berwyn.

The famed experimental paint scheme "The Barf Bonnet" prepares to lead former NS train 33G west on the triple track.

BNSF 6101 and company get re-fueled and serviced while MRL F45 390 idles away in the background. In the railfan world, this isn't something thats supposed to happen, let alone on a Class 1.

MRL 390 idles away in Clyde after being serviced and prepped for its next adventure.

Hey cool, an F45! S SEACHC strolls into Cicero with a super filthy SD40-2 leading one of the very few F45's left in revenue service.

The eight engine lash-up takes the sweeping curve at a whopping 10 MPH strolling through the West end of Davis Jct.

ICE 6417 struggles to pull his lengthy train over the hills of Monroe Center, IL.

ICE 4201 leads 4207 through downtown Elgin with today's Davis Turn with manifest headed for the EJ&E at Spaulding.

BNSF 7130 leads a former ATSF SD40-2 and a pair of GP39-2's on a lengthy stack train bound for Seattle.

After picking up two scrap loads, CP 1404 runs down the street toward the switch onto the Bloomingdale Branch.