Iowa Interstate Road Train waits at Blue Island Yard with caboose from local.
The Metra SW-1 has pulled the Electric Line cars from the station and will shove them along the Rock Island Service Line.
The Bridges of Cook CountyOn a frigid (6ΒΊ F) January 18th, 2016, Union Pacific SD70Ms 3834 and 3906, along with Canadian National SD75I 5726 and Dash 9-44CW 2593, bring a train acr... (more)
An intriguing maze of tracks and bridges at the junction.
Wearing Her Sixth Uniform... IAIS GP38-2 712 & IAIS SD38-2 151 switch cars around Burr Oak Yard as they build BISI-03. IAIS 712 started her career as Penn Central 7994.
Numerical GEVO's... Iowa Interstate ES44AC's 510 & 511 sit crew less at Burr Oak Yard on BICB-03.
Power rests at Blue Island Yard while out of service highlinners awaits their fate.
UP 1988, "The Katy" heritage engine, leads ethanol train K425 east on track 1 while a freight catches up on track 2. It was a race through Blue Island!
The Southern Pacific heritage unit leads ZDLSKP through Blue Island Junction, preparing to make the transition from IHB to CSX rails.
IHB's only SD38-2 and a former Conrail Dash 8 hold at CP Francisco in Blue Island.
UP 3845 leads an eastbound ore train from the CSX Barr Sub onto the CSX Elsdon Sub, the former GT at Blue Island Junction.
CSX 4839 leads an eastbound manifest from the IHB onto the CSX Barr Sub at Blue Island Junction.
At Blue Island, Illinois, there are four large bridges that span the Calumet-Saganashkee Channel. On a cold January 18th, 2016, BNSF train Q-FTMCXO3-16, a Guaranteed Service Intermodal, which ori... (more)
Iowa Interstate Blue Island to Council Bluffs road train is pulling out of former Rock Island yards passing Vermont Ave Station.