After about an hour and a half of switching work at Joliet, the L CHI105 was departing for Galesburg with a very neat lash-up. Of note in the lash are the two BN Cascade green SD40-2's. The clouds... (more)

The Norfolk Southern business train, complete with A-B-B-A covered wagons, rolls east through South Bend, Indiana after an 06:00 departure out of Ashland Avenue Yard in Chicago.

British Columbia Railway powered A490 slowly advances up to the Rock, passing the former EJ&E Yard.

A490 heads east up the Joliet hill with a BC Rail barn leading a pair of CN SD75I's and an SD70M-2.

L501 strolls down the CN Waukegan Sub, headed home to Schiller Park with a pair of GTW blues in charge. This portion of the old EJ&E doesn't see very much traffic. In fact, this is the only train ... (more)

A "blue devil" leads the way south through Monee on train M371.

A Cascade green GP50 leads Y HOD303 from BRC Clearing as it arrives home at BNSF's GM Yard.

A northbound train of windmill parts rolls under I-55 in Joliet. A British Columbia Railway C40-8M does the honors.

On a rainy afternoon, M CHIGAL heads west through Lemont with a mixed bag of power.

Another L CHI105 heads west over the Des Plaines River in Lemont, this one with a pair of Cascade green BN SD40-2's sandwiching an H3 SD60M.

The great lash-ups continue on the Hodgkins to Galesburg local as L CHI105 heads west across the Des Plaines River in Lemont. A pair of Santa Fe Warbonnet Dash 9's lead the way, just like they've ... (more)

A BN Cascade green GP50 waits to go to work at GM Yard. Trailing is a BNSF H3 GP39M in a GP30 carbody. Can you find the two ATSF cabooses?

A pair of veteran CSX SD70MAC's lead ethanol train K44711 south through the famed Blue Island Junction. Just ahead, the train will make way to the CSX and recrew at Riverdale. From Garrett, the tr... (more)

After switching Leithton and Wheeling this afternoon, L501 and its pair of Grand Trunk Western GP9R's head for home at Schiller Park.

A British Columbia Railway C40-8M is in charge of CN train L537 as it approaches downtown Chicago, northbound at 43rd Street on the former Illinois Central. Originating at Kirk Yard, the rest of t... (more)