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)

A trio of BNSF engines sorting a train at the Terminal Railroad yard.

NS 6418 negotiating hand switches on the Illinois Transfer Sub near Brooklyn, Illinois.

A row of benches sit quietly at the Deerfield, IL Metra station, ready for the next opportunity to host passengers waiting for their inbound train. In the meantime, they bear witness to KCS 3967 (... (more)

CN C40-8 2128 sits in Chicago Heights awaiting movement to the scrapper.

BCOL C40-8M 4605 sits in Chicago Heights awaiting movement to the scrapper.

On this day 13 years ago, Metra 180 and the city of Chicago had not seen above freezing temps for quite some time. Here it is pounding the diamonds at 16th St., headed out the Rock Island Line tow... (more)