As BRC's "NOSI" job slowly rolls up to the red signal at 31st Street Interlocking with MP15AC #151 leading, CSX train Y121 prepares to cross over with a CSX GP40-2 in charge. NOSI recent... (more)

With a CSX SD70MAC and a CN Canadian cab Dash 9 for power, M337 awaits a new crew at the plant in Riverside. A recrew would show up about a half hour later and take the train west.

SD40-2 #1755, wearing sharp Santa Fe blue and yellow paint, prepares its departure from Eola Yard with the R CHI476. The first six cars would be set out in Rochelle and the string of sand cars wou... (more)

With quite the unexpected leader in charge, BNSF train R CHI476 hustles west into Shabbona, about to pass under Route 30. SD40-2 1755 was built in 1981 as the ATSF 5187. Today, it still wears shar... (more)

A spotless DC to AC AC44C6M makes its way over the Grand Calumet River during the final moments of sunlight. Shortly after this photo, the train would begin its slow journey into IHB's Gibson Yard... (more)

With a train bound for the Burlington Junction Railway in Montgomery, Cascade green 2740 and H4 3188 make way down the elevated trackage of the Chicago Subdivision in downtown Aurora, IL.

Shortly after passing under the Indiana Harbor Belt mainlines, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago makes an afternoon run with 7 loads for the fields. With SW1 #3 leadin... (more)

A Mittal painted SW1500 makes moves through the Cleveland Cliffs' Indiana Harbor mill. The train consists of empty steel slabs.

A bottle train slowly makes its way into IHB's Lakefront Yard with an NS GP38-2 in charge. I’ve said it before, but photos don’t do justice for the size of Cleveland Cliffs’ (formerly ArcelorMitta... (more)

In December of 2020, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc purchased ArcelorMittal's US operations for 1.4 billion. Not much has changed except for some signage being removed from the property. It's business as us... (more)

A pair of classic Deathstar SD70's lead L509 south across Interstate 80 in Minooka. L509 is better known as the River Line Job and it is enroute to the industries of "East Morris."

The BC Rail heritage unit leads the way of southbound train M356 at Lake Villa, along the former WC Waukesha Subdivision. It's seen skirting a frozen Cedar Lake, along Route 83. Get your ice fishi... (more)

Metra's CB&Q inspired #211 shoves a Saturday afternoon inbound across the Des Plaines River, as it closes in on its station stop at Riverside.

On the first day of March, one of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's venerable SW1's shoves a train of empties into one of the loading tracks of the Stickney plant.

With an H1 SD40-2 and an H4 SD60M for power, R CHI476 heads west through Hinckley with tonnage for Rochelle and Oregon (Illinois, that is). This set of power has been ping ponging back and forth o... (more)