Class unit! This B40-8 is leading BNSF SD40-2 7837.

The outbound Southwest Chief has a private car on the rear from yesterday's AAPRCO train. Notice 48 has some paint chipped off of the front.

Brand new C44-9W 5503 leads another BNSF Dash 9, a BN green SD40-2 and a CSX C40-8 under partly cloudy skies.

Up the hill at Westmont comes a UP Dash 8 with no working headlights.

Doin' track speed up Westmont's hill is the westbound Southwest Chief.

Eola has some nice a nice switcher today! A BN green GP10 teams up with GP38-2 2278 to handle yard operations. Here, the 5,000 combined horsepower pulls 106 cars out, then back into the yard!

Holy cow, didn't expect this! A Bluebonnet GP60, a CEFX SD40 with SD45 body, a Bluebonnet B23-7, NS ex-Conrail SD40, and an IC SD40 in Operation Lifesaver paint, all on a mixed freight that also h... (more)

Here's one of the best lashups I've seen in a while. A Dash 8-40B and an SD40-2, both in H1 colors. Unfortuneatly, I was informed that I missed a GEVO that went through earlier this day.

Uh-oh. Signs of autumn are all around... Anyway, here is 192, which had it's undercarriage repainted black, so it's super shiny. It'll last about 5 day this shiny...

198 hangs out with it's reflection in the historic Main Street Station's window.

The builder's plate on METX 198. This is the last class of locomotive to have the "LaGrange" box checked.

198's reflection in the ticket agent's window makes for an interesting shot. In the window are three signs for safe travel on/near Metra trains.

This long, white trailer train is headed up by two BNSF Dash 9s, the second with an American flag attached to the vertical section of handrail behind the A/C box. And AC6000CW CSXT 653.

183 comes through, sporting it's shiny new black paint on the undercarriage. It's good to see a standard F40 back on an express by itself. At Main Street, the engineer got out and checked the fuel... (more)

A most interesting local this morning...a small tank car and six ATSF boxcars came and went with the locomotive. Plus, it stayed in DG for over an hour and stopped for about 10 minutes in town, bl... (more)