Westbound Illinois Railway "plow extra" crosses the frozen Fox River on the west side of Sheridan with a pair of ex-CNW SD50s sandwiching an ex-SP SD45T-2.

The 721/651 slug set works the Milan Branch for the first time following Super Bowl Sunday's blizzard that dropped 13 inches on the Quad Cities. ** I was standing outside the gauge on a public gr... (more)

The 721/651 slug set works the Milan Branch for the first time following Super Bowl Sunday's blizzard that dropped 13 inches on the Quad Cities.

Headed for the Chicago Loop.

On the weekend of November 15-16th, Amtrak rerouted for the third time in 2014. This time BNSF had been saving some serious maintenance for a bridge located just to the west of Princeton, IL on th... (more)

An outbound Metra train from Chicago's Northwestern Station passes Clinton Street Tower and the ex-C&NW semaphore signal bridge.

The IAIS operated a special train to move CN 2191 from Chicago to NRE's Silvis, IL shop. CN 2191 was involved in a wreck at Slinger, WI and is being taken to NRE for evaluation.

NS #8099 crosses the Wabash River on former Southern Railway trackage.

Chicago-Chemung Railroad SW7 pulls empty grain cars for loading from Union Pacific interchange to Seeger Grain in Chemung

A K3 horn in the distance told of an approaching UP train heading towards the yards in Chicago. I snapped this as the train crossed one of two bridges over the Kankakee River as the tracks cross o... (more)

Iowa Pacific special from Chicago to Prairie Du Chien gets on WSOR territory at Fox Lake.

The KB&S is seen reversing toward Hooper while using their historic bridge here at the RR's headquarters. The bridge was once operated by the Milwaukee Road's Southeastern in order to cross over t... (more)

In the pouring rain, a westbound (northbound) Indiana Hi-Rail freight slowly rumbles over the ancient Wabash River Bridge just east of Grayville, Illinois, on April 25, 1993. The train is powered ... (more)

A Brown Line train bound for the loop rounds a set of curves near the intersection of North and Clybourn.

The two CTA historical 4000 series cars head across the North Shore Channel just north of Central Street in Evanston.