UP 1914 leads a westbound grain empties train thru Mount Prospect, IL past a restored CNW depot. UP 1914 is a former-CNW SD40-2.

UP 1914 leads a westbound grain empties train thru Palatine, IL.

UP M-PRPR heads westbound towards the UP Harvard Sub with the two usual SD40Ns.

UP 1914, 1843, and GP unit scream thru Arlington Heights at mile 22.9 on the Harvard Subdivision with M-PRPR.

UP 1914 and two more EMDs scream through Arlington Heights, IL with an extremely rare daylight M-PRPR on a Sunday morning.

An SD40N leads a rather colorful consist through Wolf Road on the UP Milwaukee Subdivision.

UP SD40N 1914 leads a grain train west into Crystal Lake.

This SD40N pair has escaped normal yard duties in nearby Altoona for the day to handle a local to Menomonie and Hudson. The train is seen crossing the Chippewa River as dense morning fog begins t... (more)

A non-winged UP SD40N leads the tri-weekly manifest to Janesville and back thru Mount Prospect, IL past a newly restored depot.

A "Snoot" works the morning hump job at Alton & Southern's Gateway Yard.

It may look like a race, but it's really the turtle vs. the sloth. Both Upper River Services LLC's Itasca and Union Pacific's YSP80 03 are making less than 10 mph through Dayton's Bluff.

A UP SD40N has somehow made its way out of the yard and onto the point of this UP grain train, headed south through Block on a beautiful July morning.

A pair of UP SD40N's and an SD70ACe pull out of Global 3 for headroom as they build a stack train.

The tri-weekly manifest to Janesville is seen under the cover of darkness knocking down a pair of search lights on the Harvard Sub.

Empty grain train for South Beloit takes the connection at Norma where they will get onto the Harvard Sub. The SD40N leader was added at Proviso for the ATS requirement on the Harvard Sub.