After dropping off one tank car and picking up two, UP's LSF54 out of Bloomington, IL heads out of Dow Chemical in Wilmington. The covered hopper up front will be dropped at Prairie Creek about a ... (more)

Joliet Union Station....where it all started for me as a kid. I have many fond memories of watching trains at that very platform, including what is shown in this photograph...Warbonnets. Nearly 26... (more)

We're just north of downtown Pontiac as LSF54 hustles back south to Bloomington Yard with a pair of veteran GP60's, the trailer still wearing classic Southern Pacific paint. They're seen passing t... (more)

An outlawed stack train from NS Ashland Avenue Yard awaits a new crew in Chicago, while a CTA Orange Line train passes by overhead. The stack train features the Norfolk Southern's Reading heritage... (more)

After completing a pickup at the Cargill Plant, LSF54 begins the short trip back to the Bloomington Yard. Leading the way is a pair of GP60's, the leader being #1066 in Southern Pacific paint.

A good number of loaded coke cars are staged in IHB's Lakefront Yard, awaiting their turn to be dumped in Cleveland Cliff's Indiana Harbor plant as L512 (better known as the Lakefront Local) skirt... (more)

7-7 proved to be a lucky day in Lemont as L CHI105 finds the sun on its westbound trip to Galesburg. Leading is a Bluebonnet GP60, looking quite at home on the former ATSF Southern Transcon. When ... (more)

When the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern was taken over by the Canadian National, the EJ&E SW1200's didn't last long on the CN roster. When CN perged them from the roster, the majority of them found homes... (more)

A little rail n' sail for the longest day of the year. As the SS Wilfred Sykes backs up to its docking point, a keen eye will notice a former ArcelorMittal SW8 in the background, awaiting its next... (more)

Emerging from the forest on the former EJ&E Romeoville Branch (also known as "The Bug Line"), Hanson Material Service's SW900 leads three loads into the plant to be unloaded at the custo... (more)

L CHI105 highballs west through the small town of Ransom, passing the large grain elevator complex on a beautiful, summer evening. Leading the charge is a Cascade green SD40-2, #1706.

With a nice GP9/GP10 combo, the Mineral Range continues the journey to the Humboldt Mine with a train of covered gondolas picked up from Ishpeming.

The Mineral Range slowly rolls through the middle of nowhere, headed for its destination of the Humboldt Mine. ILSX GP9 1323 and ILSX GP10 1345 provide the power on a train of covered gondolas. Th... (more)

Handling the "7 Weigher" today is one of the LS&I's two sets of former BN GE's. C30-7's #'s 3074 and 3073 arrive at Partridge Junction on CN's Marquette Range Subdivision to drop off a t... (more)

After bringing in a train of ore loads from the Tilden Mine, a 3 Tilden crew departs Eagle Mills, MI with a train consisting of three covered hoppers and two tank cars. The cars are bound for the ... (more)