The Illinois Railway heads west through downtown Aurora with a SD50 / SD45T-2 / SD50 combo.

BRC Galesburg takes headroom on the Aurora Transportation Center lead as an eastbound grain train goes 1 to 3 at West Eola. If you look way in the background, you can see the RailNet getting ready... (more)

An EMD E9 is stopped at Aurora with the westbound NP NORTH COAST LIMITED. This train always had the cleanest E units the few times that I saw it. This was my "Burlington day" during that week but ... (more)

Slumbering the weekend away, some Metra suburban equipment sits below High St. in Aurora.

A BNSF manifest continues it's journey west, after sitting at Eola.

The Illinois Railway gets out of Eola with its beg, borrowed and stolen locomotives.

A WBD with mismatched doors meets an eastbound fertilizer empty at High St. in Aurora, IL.

The engineer puts on a show as he rides the high iron to the west end of the plant, to ride the crossovers back east and get in the other half of the yard at Eola.

Taken from the EJ&E bridge this westbound lashup was a surprise on the BN's racetrack.

The Rail Net power prepares to head west out of the yard, as the conductor gets ready to apply the finishing touches to the switch.

What a wonderful end to a great weekend, of railfanning with a shot of the BRCGAL train at Eola ready to set out the two F40's SLRG along for the ride. Two former Conrail units, and a great cons... (more)

A heavy early spring snow blankets northern Illinois as five light units approach the junction of the Galesburg main and the Minneapolis main. Cowl-bodied F45 6603 seems a natural to be leading t... (more)