A GTW freight inbound to Chicago approaches Chicagoland after a frigid ride through Michigan and Indiana. I'm unsure as to the vintage of the 5th locomotive.

M-337 rolls past CN yard switcher

Shiny red, white & blue.

The Cedar Rapids local is working it's way out of the Wapsipinicon River Valley west of Central City. This job makes Manchester turn out of Cedar Rapids 7 days a week.

The Cedar Rapids local has slowed down from 40 mph to 25 mph thru the town of Ryan. A GTW GP 38 and a CN GP 40 power today's train of 32 cars back to Cedar Rapids.

Cedar Rapids local is on their way back to Cedar Rapids from Manchester with a small train today.

My first time around Grand Trunk locomotives in 1992 ... I couldn't believe how bright the red paint could get on a clean loco.

"One twenty-nine's coming in first!" Crew members confer in the yard as they wait to depart southbound.

A trio of Grand Trunk diesels idle in Chicago & Northwestern's diesel marshalling yard. A C&NW switching move approaches in the distance.

CN's L571 is working it way back to its train after a set out and now stops for a UP North bound Coal train at the old Mills tower now the local historical society

Canadian National's Manitowoc Turn trundles down Franklin Street in Manitowoc on its way back to Neenah. The lake effect snow machine we call Lake Michigan is dowsing this shoreline community wit... (more)

This ice formed during the trip back from Council Bluffs on Saturday night during a freezing rain storm. L569 is in the background, on the main, ready to depart for Marcus.