Bound for Toronto, a CP SD40-2 and a CEFX "Blue Bird" roll a 240 train down the BRC in Cicero.

A pair of CP's new ECO units lead G45 south down the BRC in Cicero. These things sure look weird! Meanwhile a CSX local with a GP15T plays catch-up as it leads a local.

When green was new
Brand-new Burlington Northern EMD SD60M No. 9256 gets set up in Clyde Yard engine facility at Cicero, Illinois, on January 26, 1991, back when locomotives in a coat o... (more)

The former EMD demo SW1 #700 is seen pulled out of the roundhouse for one last time. In just a few hours, the scrapper went to work on a locomotive that should have been preserved in a more secure... (more)

The Manufactures Junction Railway SW1's #23 & 33 are seen pulled out of the roundhouse after being stored for five years. This foggy and gloomy morning would be their last as the scrapper went to ... (more)

Built in Oct 1946, the former EMD SW1 demo unit #700 (which became MJRY #33), waits its fate with the scrapper after being stripped by vandals while sitting inside the roundhouse for years after o... (more)

An SP set of locomotives visits Clyde yards.

CP 240 (Bensenville, IL. to Toronto, ON.) is moving right along on the BRC at 31st Street, with a cool lash-up. SOO 6038 leads the way, followed by a pair of DM&E SD40-2's.

Gravitational Pull - A westbound BNSF freight with CSX run-thru power is trying to escape Chicago's gravitational pull. Shown making an effort on the BNSF's Race Track at Clyde Yard.

Ex-CB&Q 431.

Brain Box- Not every day you pull up behind a Caboose. Even in 96, only a select few Soo jobs used them. Shot off the nose of my WC SD45, this "Brain Box" guards the rear of a Soo pig transfer hea... (more)

On a wonderful evening, G45 (Bensenville to Clearing) cruises down the Belt, with a very nice lineup, consisting of a CP GP40, a pair of SOO GP38-2's, an NS GP60, an NS (Ex-HLCX/UP) and an NS Dash... (more)

The Oakway trio is beginning its journey down the Belt Railway of Chicago, bound for Clearing Yard. Here, it's about to pass under 31st Street.

The Loop looms in the distance as a couple of SD40-2's and a GP40X works the east end of Cicero Yard. SW1200 NREX 418 in transit.

An outbound train from the Loop with a rebuilt F40PH races through Cicero on it's way out to the west suburbs as the Sears Tower stands tall in the distance. (Just does not seam right calling it t... (more)