On the final approach into Michigan City, the Kingsbury job crawls passed the Sullair Plant... a mere few miles from the Yard Limits.

After returning from Kingsbury, the CSS GP pair would eventually cut off from his cars, and park his power outside the yard. A yard crew would come later and shuffle the cars around, and into, the... (more)

On a warm summer afternoon, the Kingsbury Job’s power splits in two, one GP with tank cars, one GP with grain cars. They would spend another 30 minutes switching around and building a train befo... (more)

A pair of South Shore GPs take the Kingsbury Job up into LaPorte after an afternoon of switching.

A sole GP takes the 457 job into Naperville, on its way to BNSFs Eola Yard. Today he is running a little later then usual.

A pair of 70m’s & an ac44 take a Stack train through Winfield, approaching Wheaton, on the easternmost portion of the Overland Route.

After about an hour of switching Pepperidge Farm outside Fairview Ave. Metra Station... the Racetracks’ 457 job continues east, bound for Western Ave in Chicago. Today the 457 job sports a 5 pac... (more)

The only local/road switcher that BNSFs famous “Racetrack” sees, is the daily R-CHI457 job. Unfortunately this job normally uses Gevos & Dash 9s... but on occasion, it can use some Standard Ca... (more)

The sun beats down on Chicagoland, as a... newly released from storage... SD70M-2 takes the daily M337 thru the long tree tunnel that is Addison, IL.

This train brought railfans and photographers from all over the country, to converge on CSX Train Q165. This Q165 had 2 CM&Q SD40-2F “Barns”, leading 2 broken CP engines... one being the Air F... (more)

On a hot summer afternoon, 105 cruises over the Des Plaines River with a pair of H1 SD40s.

The Heritage ACU seen 2nd out was Bad Ordered in Bensenville, so CP tacked on another ACU as a pilot. Heres the new 281 as it crawls out of B12 Junction in Franklin Park, IL.

On a warm summer afternoon, the Chicago to Galesburg local rounds the bend over the Des Plaines River in Lemont, IL... with a Retro BNSF lashup... a pair of Heritage 1 SD40s.

A pair of IHB GPs wait outside Norpaul Yard, for clearance into CPs Bensenville Yard, with transfer NA11 in tow.

A pair of GTW GPs race north with CNs L535. Here is the pair as they exit Lemont township and head towards CN Glenn Yard.