Eastbound loaded coils for Cleveland Cliffs' Tek & Kote plant in New Carlisle make their way up Otis Hill as another cold winter day approaches a swift end.

Iowa Interstate's flagship Council Bluffs - Blue Island road train rips into Sheffield, Il on a hazy, humid summer night. One of the railroad's Gevos is followed by two geeps - which really helped... (more)

Indiana Railroad's flagship HWSA heads east thru a very hazy and warm Indiana sunset.

CSS AF7 hits the streets of Michigan City, on the first leg of their journey west. Every weekday, this job's primary function is to peddle the day's freight from the east end of the railroad to ei... (more)

A very foggy afternoon finds CSX Q138 heading thru Whiting, IN. This train is actually rerouting down the NS Chicago Line, as the usual route of the Barr Subdivision was severed in two locations, ... (more)

The extremely short-lived Mon-Wed-Fri 100th St. local assignment shoves 31 cement hoppers up the BRC's South Chicago Industrial Lead, toward Commercial Avenue Yard. An unseasonably warm day and my... (more)

Daily Riverdale-Barr yard transfer heads north on a very dark and rainy spring day.

Light CHTT movement heading east through the S curve along 17th Street, in the urban mecca of Chicago Heights. 'Twas quite a hazy, warm spring evening.

A very dark and foggy evening finds the daily Kirk Yard-Toronto manifest on the first leg of their trip, ripping through the very welcoming, totally safe city of Gary, IN.

A beautiful 66° Sunday night finds IHB 2924 working Gibson Yard's East End switcher. At 2230 this same night, both 324's crew would die on time, and 2924 would be permanently retired from the rai... (more)

Extra power sits tied down at Lake Siding - the CF&E's furthest siding to the west. These units will be used on an extra wind turbine train very early the next morning. This whole scene is illumin... (more)

Empty coal drag from Burns Harbor heads east through unincorporated LaPorte County, IN. Autumn is in full swing and the lineside scenery all along Otis Hill is a riot of color.

CHTT drags 20 loads south down one of their many terminal tracks spiderwebbed around Chicago Heights at sunset.

Before the main targets of AF5 and AF7 could hit the street, we were greeted by a pleasant surprise - NICTD's two geeps heading down 11th Street to do god knows what further west of here. The 1000... (more)

An unseasonably warm night finds South Shore's AF7 - the train that forwards all far east end traffic west to either Bailly or Goff - all depends on who gets the interchange. It is just shy of 10P... (more)