Deadline at the former Illinois Central Markham Yard

These tracks have seen more plentiful days, though they are a reliable source for catching CN's fallen flags. On this day the Illinois Central leads the Grand Trunk and EJ&E

After getting a recrew at Champaign Road in Taylor, Michigan, CN L572 is back on the move south over the Dearborn Sub. The iconic concrete arches still standing from Ford's electrified section of ... (more)

A pair of Illinois Central SD70's are in charge of CN local L572 as it heads south down the Dearborn Sub, crossing over M-39 in Allen Park, Michigan. The Dearborn Sub is home to the concrete caten... (more)

CN train L572 (Flat Rock, MI - Detriot, MI turn) works its way southbound on the ex DT&I "Arch Line" with a pair of ex Illinois Central SD70s for power. These arches were constructed in ... (more)

A good collection of power congregates at Joliet Yard on April Fools day 2021 including sequential numbered IC SD70's: IC 1026, 1027, & 1028.

IC 1028 leads the L509 at County Line Road in a scene that lacks very much color but spring is here and that should change soon.

IC 1003 works the south end of Joliet Yard on a nice early fall day.

Late season snowfall blankets the ground but has already begun to melt in the sun as CN U702 cruises south through Conneautville, Pennsylvania on the Bessemer Sub. An all black consist of three IC... (more)

Darth Vader Curves. Illinois Central/Canadian National Railway Company1021 (SD70, EMD) leads a lengthy manifest train through the interlocking approaching Champaign Yard in Champaign, Illin... (more)

The L509 with a pair of IC SD70's has just completed its pickup at Motive Power Resources in Minnooka. OMNX 2 an EMD SW1200 will tag along to Morris and then back to Joliet Yard. From there its of... (more)

It's around 7 months later (July 2020) and the IC 1033 and 1026 are back running on the L509 on this sunny winter day.

IC 1038 leads the L536 through Matteson as it begins to depart the Mainline of Mid-America on their trip to Kirk Yard.

On the morning of May 6, 1990, a northbound Illinois Central freight is held on Track 1 at Manteno, Illinois, to let Amtrak’s train 58, the City of New Orleans, pass by on its rapid trip north t... (more)

Illinois Central E8 4028 leads an A-B-A set on a passenger train departing Central Station in Chicago, Illinois in the 1960s. R. T. Steinbrenner Photo