Just Like Old Times. On a perfect afternoon in Joliet, a pair of EJ&E SD38-2's are in charge of train L521, a local freight from Kirk Yard in Gary, IN. EJ&E power rarely makes it to Joliet ... (more)

Metra 104, the Chicago unit, leads a outbound train into Bensenville, passing Tower B17.

Metra 505 shoves a inbound train out of Bensenville, passing Tower B17.

Passing under the Canadian National bridge as they back onto their train are BNSF Railway ES44DC 7437, ES44C4 8079, Dash 9-44CW 5074, Dash 9-44CW 5488, Dash 9-44CW 994 and ES44DC 7651. Before lon... (more)

A duo of KCSM Gray Ghost AC44s lead CPKC 249 West through Elmwood Park

IC SD70 1028 leads CN L509 South through Shorewood. A DAIR GP9 in third out.

Night Light - CN 8819 peaks out from behind the depot built in the mid 1890s hauling a stack train through town on a very warm February night. This depot has a lot of history in town, and just li... (more)

Heritage Fog CN’s Wisconsin Central heritage pulls train M336 past the Lake Zurich depot on its way south to Kirk Yard (Gary) from Green Bay, Wisconsin on a foggy but mild January night.

ALS 2205 leads UP MBNAS in Bloomington, IL as they are getting there train together before heading south to St. Louis

A pair of Illinois Central SD70s lead TRRA Madison Yard to Centralia, IL local L548. Weather delays and getting through the maze of rail junctions in East St. Louis, IL have outlawed the crew less... (more)

ATSF 128 and 112, both GP60Ms, face off at Corwith Yard, Chicago between runs to the West Coast.

Class Dash 8-40BW, ATSF 500, gets a roll on it as it proceeds by Union Station at Joliet with an intermodal hotshot out of Corwith Yard, Chicago. Everything is better with a warbonnet on it!

A Santa Fe business car is parked with other business train equipment at Archer Avenue, Chicago. At this time Santa Fe still handled servicing on power & equipment used over its lines by Amtrak. R... (more)

Amtrak E units gather with a couple BN E9Ms at the Zephyr Pit located south of Union Station. At this time BN handled much of Amtrak's engine servicing in Chicago. Amtrak units were still using st... (more)

The road power has been removed from CYDU (Cheyenne, WY-Dupo, IL) and the yard unit brings the train in for unloading as it passes the Missouri Pacific cantilever signal guarding the south end of ... (more)