In a scene from the past, "Dresser OPR" Don Knudtson hoops up orders to engineer Max Medlin on one of many photo runbys put on by S&B Productions on a sunny day in May. Don is no strange... (more)

At dusk, some of MNNR's finest 4 axle switcher power assembles at their shops in the Twin Cities.

A former PRR GP30 idles at their Ashley-Hudson, IN locomotive facility.

A pair of pushers exit the Portage Tunnel, shoving tonnage towards Altoona, PA.

Fresh from the paint booth, Metra #97 sees sunlight for the first time in new dress.

After making a Chicago Superintendent's Special from LaSalle Street to Bureau, Illinois and back, their classy passenger train heads down the Airline for Amtrak's Chicago Terminal.

With barely a smudge on them, fresh Union Pacific AH's run lite from NS's Landers Yard to Global One after delivering their K Line Stack train.

Riding the rolling profile of BNSF's Needles Sub., stacks for Logistics Park in Chicago meet the rising sun on another day in the Mojave Desert.

Vintage Chicago area transfer power meets head to head on IHB's often-busy multiple track beltline. A pair of aging IHB SD20's with autos for Canadian Pacific complete the scene.

The last westbound HIAWATHA SERVICE train for Milwaukee, Wisconsin slides out of the windy city behind one of Amtrak's commemorative leaders.

Rolling towards Hawthorne Yard and the former Illinois Central Iowa Division, NS's orange and tangerine CNJ Heritage Unit heads westbound near Chicago's Chinatown, on the near southside of the cit... (more)

Stepping out of the clouds on a monochromatic day, CN's train for the Belt Railway of Chicago steps onto the Elgin Subdivision for access to the BRC. A pair of nearly-new GE products do the honors... (more)

Ess-curving across the Des Plaines River and Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, another BNSF westbound intermodal makes its way to the west coast with more double stacked containers for market.

Kicking up a lot of powder, NS train 26N-21 heads for Columbus Ohio, as it leaves former Pennsy tracks for the old New York Central at Whiting, Indiana.

In the quietest moments of a winter storm, fire and ice converge in the tangled trackwork at Metra's busiest interlocking in the Chicagoland area.