A Michigan service train starts thru the curves in Hammond.
Not quite street running, the 300 delivers loads inside Peter Baker's facility, not a common move as the private track mobile normally does the shuttling. You can see the piles come right up to th... (more)
A cut of cars about to be delivered to "Baker".
The Waukegan local arrives at Rondout. The relatively fresh paint looks ok, I would still rather see it in a nice shade of brown though.
The west end road freight makes its delivery to the CP.
The "C&NW Trio" makes another trip home to Chicago. The DeKalb coaling tower in the back ground is approx 2 miles away from my vantage point.
Slightly panned as these two units shove 9 cars back to OTC.
The hogger puts on a show as this express picks up some speed.
Crossing over from 1 to 2 to get on the Fox Lake sub.
Power for the Crystal Lake local.
The "Village of Chicago Ridge" hangs out in late eve sun.
Unique double headed dwarf combination protects at the Illinois Railway Museum.
A nice Sunday evening finds these two trains laying over for the weekend.
Lighting courtisey of "Maglite"...
And to think... these used to be "normal, every day" trains... now only at IRM.
