Nicknamed the “Menards Local”, Y-EOL202 crawls out of BNSFs Eola Yard, towards downtown Aurora, with a trio of GPs for power.

105 would have been the trio of SD40s, but the leader decided to not work, so the 2 geeps were tacked on the front. So heres 105 rolling over the Des Plaines river with the 5-pack of standard cabs... (more)

On a rather cool summer evening, UPs Proviso to Bensenville transfer, YPRCP, crawls under Tower B12 in Franklin Park, IL with a pair of rebuilt SD40Ns.

After bypassing Bensenville, a trio of CP standard cab EMDs take the daily CP 287 towards the curve into Deval Junction. A former SOO SD60 leads 287 today, with an SD30C-ECO & Dual Flag SD40 trail... (more)

An uncommon occurrence in Franklin Park... CPs G41 transfer to UP Proviso, leaving in daylight. Today the 40N pair crawls under Tower B12, with an inbound metra watching the movement.

On another hot summer day, temperatures neared triple digits, as an empty ballast train races west with a, quite crusty, shield AC44 in the lead.

On a toasty summer afternoon, Amtrak’s Veterans paint P42 races south, passing the, once historic, now metra, depot in downtown Lemont.

With only a few minutes of sunlight left... NS 4000, nicknamed the “SonicBonnet” by railfans, cruises over the Des Plaines River with an intermodal bound for the west coast.

On a warm evening, the Galesburg to Chicago local makes its way over the Des Plaines River, running as a manifest rather then 104, due to today being a weekend.

On a warm evening, a whopping 10 Gevos round the bend in Lemont with a short intermodal for LPC in tow.

On a beautiful sunday evening, the GM to Galesburg Local / Manifest cruises over the Des Plaines River with a trio of SD60Ms... one of which still wears its green BN paint.

Running a modified schedule, Metra’s Milwaukee Road Commemorative Unit coasts under Tower B12 in Franklin Park, IL.

With Protests & Riots spread all over the city, Metra operated Sunday schedules on all lines throughout the week. For the MDW, that meant only utilizing 2 sets, and sure enough, 405 was one of sai... (more)

G41 derailed in CPs Bensenville Yard on the 3rd, so this caused YPRCP to not run for about a day or two. So on the 5th, an extra long YPRCP crawls under Tower B12 with a pair of UPs finest SD40Ns ... (more)

With almost all of America in chaos, one finds peace with a Historic Relic, in BNSF 3167, a Bluebonnet GP50, leading a train over the Des Plaines River on a warm, near 100F degree, afternoon.