KCSM 4760 leads the CPKC 247 out of Bensenville Yard.

KCS 4844 leads a train out of Bensenville Yard on a beautiful morning while a United 737 takes off from O'Hare Field.

Union Pacific YPR60B arrives at the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center to perform its switching duties. While it may not look like it yet, changes are indeed coming to the area. The Freedom Center is ... (more)

Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun. Amtrak Train 3 (Southwest Chief) was an on time departure as it approached Roosevelt Road in Chicago, Illinois on April 16, 2022. Leading the consist ... (more)

ATSF 105 & mate has tied onto the employee passenger special at Joliet, IL and would soon depart for Corwith Yard, Chicago.

Santa Fe could always put on a show on their Chicago mainline to Kansas City and California. Here a quartet of Superfleet power led by ATSF GP60M 142 leads a quartet of Yellow/blue power on a west... (more)

The former Santa Fe station at Streator remains in use as an Amtrak stop. The structure is a classic Santa Fe piece of architecture.

TRRA 3008 (GP40M-3) is paired with TRRA 308 (slug) working the TRRA yard south end.

Amtrak P42 103 wyes the trainset for the Lake Shore Limited in downtown Chicago.

Former BN SD70MAC 9650 leads Z-SSECHC East through Berwyn, approaching its destination of Clyde Yard in Cicero.

UP 6706 leads UP MPRNL at Tuscola,IL

The NS Virginian Heritage unit leads 219 west across Illinois as a recent snow slowly melts away.

A birds eye view of IC 1005 and IC 1017 leading the CN L509 through Plainfield on the former EJE River Line.

IC 1028 leads the CN L509 to Morris for some switching work. A DAIR GP9 will be set out at Motive Power Resources in Minooka Illinois further down the line.

An interesting consist makes up the CPKC 247 on this Valentines Day 2024. KCS 4844, BNSF 9783 and SOO 4448. Guess this would count as a fallen flag locomotive consist.