An outbound Metra and a westbound ICE freight clear the Franklin Park signal bridge at the same time.
The trio of unpatched CNW units arrives back in Chicago with a manifest from the Twin Cities.
A southbound manifest slices through the farm fields of central IL.
A faded pumpkin leads a stack train over Crow Creek in Toluca.
A westbound Z train rolls through the town of Toluca on a beautiful autumn day.
The fall colors on Sequoia Curve are beginning to show as this BNSF stack train with a solid NS lashup heads west into the setting sun.
An eastbound Z train rolls downgrade as it approached the Illinois River.
Tazewell and Peoria's pair of geeps waits for its next assignment.
The Bureau switch job heads south to Peoria to interchange with the Tazewell and Peoria.
IAIS 710 runs long hood forward leading a local down to Peoria.
An eastbound stack train barrels east through the quiet small town of Toluca.
An eastbound manifest led by an SD40 with a nose job cruises through the crossovers in Toluca.
CNW 8575 slows down to meet a northbound at Glover siding as it approaches Villa Grove.
One of three remaining unpatched CNW units leads a manisfest south to St. Louis
A loaded UP coal train heads south on the Illinois Midland.