With the cooling towers of Southern California Edison’s Coolwater PACE 520 Power Plant looming in the distance, BNSF Railway Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-NYCLAC7-26L rounds the S-curve at... (more)

Providing a splash of color on a dreary January day is Connecticut Department of Transportation train 1616, with equipment painted in the colors of the old New Haven Railroad, traveling across the... (more)

The Handy Dandy Railroad, encircling the Denton FarmPark, did a "dandy" job restoring High Point, Thomasville & Denton 70-ton 202 to her nearly "as delivered" appearance. This ... (more)

Metra train 1249 arrives at the Harlem Avenue station at 4:58 pm (17:58) on a winter’s day. This train is heading from downtown Chicago to Fairview Avenue as part of the evening commuter rush o... (more)

Canadian National (Illinois Central) business car IC 800413 Great Lakes is one of seven CN/IC business cars undergoing work at CN’s Woodcrest Locomotive Shops. This car, built by Pullman... (more)

Once again, Amtrak’s Southwest Chief encountered problems en route from Chicago to Los Angeles, and train 3 picked up a BNSF engine to assist it in Kansas City, at which point it was runn... (more)

Awaiting its turn getting serviced at Canadian National’s Woodcrest Locomotive Shop is CN ES44AC 3852, built in 2019 by General Electric. (Homewood, Illinois – September 24, 2021) Photogr... (more)

Just south of Union Station is Amtrak’s 16th Street Engine Facility, where the carrier’s locomotives and cars get serviced and receive light repairs. With the Willis Tower looming in the back... (more)

There is an impressive array of diesel power at Canadian National Railways’ Kirk Yard. From left to right we see CN SD40u 6001, CN Dash 9-44CW 2646, Illinois Central GP40-2 3129 and CN SD40-2(W)... (more)

Sitting on one of the turntable whisker tracks at Indiana Harbor Belt’s Gibson Yard is one of the railroad’s National Railway Equipment Company 3GS21C IHB 2161, the second of four of these low... (more)

Rolling west is BNSF Railway train H-BRCNTW1-23, which originated at Belt Railway of Chicago’s Clearing Yard and is bound for Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This merchandise train (T... (more)

BNSF Railway empty coal train E-CNMWTM0-26 originated in Monroe, Michigan, and it headed back to the Black Thunder Mine in Wyoming for another load. BNSF ES44C4 6972 and SD70Ace 8749 have a fairl... (more)

Awaiting the call to their next assignment at Canadian National’s Woodcrest Locomotive Shop are Illinois Central SD70 1034 and CN ES44AC 2881. (Woodcrest used to be an IC facility before CN acq... (more)

A train with three Union Pacific engines (SD70ACe 8982 up front, AC4400CW 7153 midtrain and ES44AC 7386 on the rear) interrupts a welder working on the crossing on the adjacent mainline as it cros... (more)

A pair of Norfolk Southern diesels – AC44C6M 4016 (ex-Dash 9-40C 8849) and SD70ACe 1013 – are serviced in Canadian National’s Kirk Yard. (Gary, Indiana – September 24, 2021). Photograp... (more)