In sweet light, a trio of Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motors make their assault on Proctor Hill as they lead a train of loaded limestone to the yard. The clouds were playing games all evening, but... (more)

Metra's AAPRCO special is making the rounds around Chicagoland. As thunderstorms build up north on this Saturday afternoon, Metra F59PHI #90 and F40PH-3 #104 highball south through Lockport, passi... (more)

Hanson Material Service is in the process of bringing 4 empties out of Rocks Etc on a sunny afternoon in Romeoville. Crossing the Des Plaines River, the crew will gain access to the "Bug Line" up ... (more)

Expect the unexpected. While driving through Bedford Park, a surprise was spotted in the parking lot of SeatGeek Stadium, home to numerous Illinois Soccer teams. A former CTA Electric MU, n... (more)

CSDX 2 and 1 finish their morning duties at the drying fields in Willow Springs. The cars in the foreground were dumped not long before this photo. With the 26 cars of human waste all dumped, the ... (more)

A mixed bag of GE's lead a hotshot Phoenix bound Z train past Union Oil, an industry that's served 5 days a week by BNSF.

IC 1000, 1029, 3138 and 3108 lead Glenn-Kirk L536 around the curve in Matteson, exiting the Chicago Sub and approaching the Matteson Sub. The two trailing GP40R's spent quite some time assigned to... (more)

The peacefulness of the small town of Donovan, IL is disturbed by the passing of a Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern grain train. As other grain cars are in the process of being loaded on the eleva... (more)

On this sunny morning, I was quite pleased to see UPY 643 and UPY 610 finishing up their work at Lineage Logistics in West Chicago. Both units are baby tunnel motors (GP15-1's) of Missouri Pacific... (more)

Not long after departing Glenn Yard, the R924 crew begins the afternoon's work at Argo, preparing to shove into Owens' Corning in Summit. EJE 703 and IC 9634 provide the power on this nice, sunny ... (more)

After working Owens' Corning, R924 crosses the diamonds with the Indiana Harbor Belt, slowly making its way deeper into the Argo industry world. EJE GP38-2 703, one of the last two J-Ball locomoti... (more)

L CHI105 hustles west through Mazon with a trio of SD40-2's, the leader still wearing classic Santa Fe "Freightbonnet" paint.

A trio of SD40-2's, led by Santa Fe painted #1755, lead westbound train L CHI105 across the Des Plaines River on a nice afternoon.

Minnesota Commercial T-3 and B30-7 #88 take headroom out of BNSF's Midway Yard, passing by the location that used to be Saint Paul Union Depot. T-3 still has that classic look of a B23-7, but is n... (more)

Welcome back. CSDX SW1 #1, one of the three SW1's owned by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, will turn 70 this month. It's been out of service for quite some time due... (more)