EMD sure got it right when it came to that bulldog nose.... CNW 411 poses for camera during Diesel Days at the Illinois RR Museum in July of 2009.

Santa Fe employees and their families enjoy a day of train riding on the Santa Fe mainline between Joliet & the Chicago area. The train is about to depart Joliet for an eastward run. I believe the... (more)

Santa Fe employees and their families enjoy a day of train riding on the Santa Fe mainline between Joliet & the Chicago area. Here engines 105 & 104 are running around their special train and will... (more)

CPKC grain train being loaded at Bartlett Grain in Jacksonville Illinois.

A birds eye view of a CPKC grain train wrapping around Bartlett Grain in Jacksonville being slowly loaded while someone gets a talking to from the Illinois State Police down below.

Westbound freight crashes through the interlocking. Photo by Mike Dolenski.

Another cloudy, cold and super windy morning on the Canadian National in Illinois as train A407 rumbles north through the small community of Hayes with another pair of Illinois Central SD70's in c... (more)

A pair of UP GE's lead NS Train 19K westbound in beautiful afternoon light down the Lafayette District at Vance, IL.

Norfolk Southern TripleCrown Roadrailer Train 255 heads westbound through downtown Decatur, IL. with a new crew on board.

In this 2.5 second exposure Shaker Heights Rapid Transit #18 passes the wig-wag signal.

TRRA SD40-2 3006 leads TRRA 101 East across Route 3 in Venice,

Norfolk Southern TripleCrown Roadrailer Train 255 heads westbound through Oakley, IL.

The snow has stopped and the sun is peaking through the clouds as Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad (DREI) Freight Train 101 heads eastbound through Newman, IL.

On a cold, dark and somewhat snowy December evening, Norfolk Southern SD40-2 #6173 still wearing it's non horsehead paint scheme, leads Train D91 eastbound in the siding at Tolono, IL. preparing t... (more)

ATSF 139 leads an A-A-B-B consist of Superfleet scheme GP60Ms/GP60Bs on a 199 train, Santa Fe's hottest westbound trailer train between Chicago and Los Angeles. It's crossing the Vermillion River ... (more)