A recent addition to the establishment's collection, ex. Conrail 4601 basks in the late morning sun at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Passing a set of former IC highliners, a Metra commuter continues its way down the Milwaukee North line after diverging off the Canadian Pacific's C&M Subdivision at Rondout.

A Metra commuter train races across the ex. EJ&E diamond after loading passengers in Barrington.

Running six minutes early, Amtrak's Empire Builder heads through a curve west of Reeseville that many enthusiasts have shot from since the days of the Milwaukee Road.

A rebuild CP EMD leads a manifest westward over the Rock River.

A Metra commuter train departs for Aurora as it is dwarfed by the surrounding Chicago skyline.

A UP ethanol train passes what may be the most photographed barn (by railfans) in Illinois.

The 2707 sits at the point of one of the long strings of stored lokies sitting on the grounds of the former Rock Island servicing facilities on the NREX property in Silvis.

A tank car sits next to the BN's siding at Skamania, with no track underneath its bogies.

Montana Rail Link's infamous Gas Local races by a well-known photo location along the Clark Fork River just north of Plains on its way back to Missoula.

A BNSF coal train passes the searchlights at the west end of Tobin.

Three MRL SD40-2XRs lead the BNSF's LAUPAS as the train fights the east side of Mullan Pass just east of Austin. Word has spread that this may be the last trip on this specific freight for the 40s... (more)

A BNSF coal train makes it way over Skyline Trestle through what appears to be a sea of green adjacent to the Continental Divide. The haze featured in this photo is most likely thanks to a fire th... (more)

The Southern Pacific 4449 leads its excursion southward through the farmland of central Oregon.

Running late, the SP 4449 leads the Cascades Daylight over the first of several bridge crossings over the Deschutes River, a waterway the train traveled along shortly after reentering Oregon.