Summer temperatures spread out across Chicagoland, as BNSF’s last active “smurf” locomotive rumbles over the Des Plaines river in Lemont. Recently reactivated after BNSF ridded their rails o... (more)

Its June 2022, on a quiet morning high above Skyline Trestle, the silence is expunged by the iconic sounds of EMDs screaming through the rigid mountainside. 4404 and another Ace combine with a Jim... (more)

After hitting a tree in southern Kentucky, Amtraks City of New Orleans train pushes back into Chicago’s Union Station after being rescued by a CN SD40-2W. Meeting them going south, another Amtra... (more)

With a train loaded for Detroit, a pair of BN painted 70macs scream through the northern illinois countryside, seen here having just departed Mendota.

On a hazy, yet sunny, Tuesday evening in downtown Chicago… a Wyoming coal train crawls under 18th street with loads for NS in Detroit. With railfans from all over the area in hot pursuit, this i... (more)

After receiving a shiny new coat of paint in NS’s Altoona Shops out in Pennsylvania, the new & improved Reading Heritage unit glides over the Fox River in Geneva, IL. This was its first run on f... (more)

On a sunny morning in downtown Gary, a South Shore BN coal crawls around town with a trio of CSS power at the helm. Due to the double-track construction project, from here to the power plant, will... (more)

After a setback on the BNs side, a late string of coal loads crawls uphill out of Chicago towards the Cleveland Cliffs power plant in Burns Harbor, Indiana. Todays train has a pair of SD38s sandwi... (more)

After initializing PTC just outside of town, CSS 805 charges into Gary, IN with a long string of NORX coal empties in tow.

With the fate of the NIPSCO power plant uncertain, these NORX coal trains may be a distant memory soon enough. With that said, on a sunny spring afternoon, one of South Shore’s NORX coal empties... (more)

Spring in Chicagoland, after a day of severe weather, the following day opened up 50s & sun, perfect weather for South Shore’s NORX coal empties to traverse the system. Todays train has one of t... (more)

On a gloomy afternoon, a CP work train preforms a shove from Genoa to Davis Junction with two of CPs finest EMDs for power.

Ohio Centrals Cambridge turn crawls out of the east tunnel portal, and into its namesake town to begin working industries. With OHCRs “Super 7” B23-7S locomotives slated for scrap in the comin... (more)

Ohio Centrals Cambridge turn wraps around a small rock cut just east of Sonora, OH with two of OHCRs finest Super 7s for power.

One of the many engines newly slated for inevitable scrap by G&W, Ohio Centrals Zanesville Local emerges from the west tunnel portal in Cambridge with two of OHCRs finest “Super 7” dash 7 loco... (more)