A coal train emerges from the snow led by two 70MACs. A group of girls waits for the next inbound Metra train.

Stopping in the snow at Main Street. No big snow banks unfortunately...

The first F40PHM-2 accelerates out of the station onto Clarendon Hills.

Hmmmmm...What is it? 2004 and we have 5 - count em, 5 - Geeps on a mainline freight. *I think* a GP39 leads, with GP9u, both in ATSF, the first with an interesting patch. Then, two whiteface GPs, ... (more)

Super-shiny, most likely freshly de-Warbonneted, 892, teams up with a 70MAC on a westbound manifest.

Two SD40-2s lead an westbound stack train through the decorated town. Burlington Avenue parallels the tracks for quite a distance to the east of here, no doubt named after the CB&Q.

407 pulls Lisle's "Polar Express," with Santa and other characters onboard, at trackspeed through Downers Grove. While not as impressive as Pere Marquette 1225, it's still nice to hear an MP36 roa... (more)

Here comes another great lashup on BRCGAL...BN 8020, CN SD40-2 5386, CSX Dash 8 7371, NS Dash 8 8414 (with the front door open), NS high-hood GP38-2 4148, and finally HLCX SD40-2 6219. The train w... (more)

Just like the good old days...An Amtrak F40 (now Cabbage) leads the Illinois Zephyr into Chicago...Only now it must have a P42 pushing. Here it flies by the historic Main Street Station in a brisk... (more)

Light engines passing through the "Christmas-ified" downtown. Notice the wreaths on the lightpoles.

Conrail "Q" SD60I, with mismatched numberboards, and a Santa Fe SD40-2 lead BRCGAL - the train most likely to have odd, rare, or lots of power on the BNSF.

A new switch section lays in near the MoW siding at the end of my street. The crane, two tampers and a tie crane wait patiently for the next weekend so they can continue the work in DG. Hmmmm, I w... (more)

Coming right at ya! An eastbound coal drag switches from Main 2 to 3 after it passed trackwork on 3 about a mile west of here.

Here's the way it used to be...Two BN green SD40-2s on an intermodal. The second one is FURX, though.