A quadruplet of matched colors screams toward me around Menards curve headed for BRC's Clearing Yard.
A UP manifest powered by a former BNSF pumpkin high tales it down the middle on IHB's Belt RR.
The previous days M348 with a fresh crew finally makes its way toward the Chicago terminal. The massive snow fall during the previous days must have really given this train some trouble.
The second CHCSSE of the day blasts off with a more stellar consist consisting of a classic H1, ATSF Warbonnet, and the generic H2...
The Southwest Chief ontime out of the city is led by a mix of power today... P42 52 and a Cascade service F59PH 469. The pair blow through town while a BNSF yard job pulls down to the west end for... (more)
Looking as good as the day it was released from GE's Erie, PA plant; BNSF 7734 heads out of Cicero in the lead of 65 cars of intermodel traffic.
The "short-turn" heads west out of Cicero through the western suburbs of Chicago... and of course the SD60M is trailing.
A fairly late CHCPTL high balls west over the hill kicking up snow at track speed.
Probably the catch of the evening, LDS2, the old L923 job, with a whole slew of high and wides awaits his signal westbound after making the reverse move from the IHB down main 3 to clear the B12 P... (more)
Amtrak power lays over in Chicago on a cold, blustery, blizzardy, winters eve.
A trio of SD40-2's are in control of this stack train originating out of Logistics Park reaching the BN side of the equation via the EJ&E.
This nifty little stack train is just about ready to pull eastbound with a GP38-2/SD9/GP25 combo. The GP25 is a rebuilt GP50... BNSF is messing around with the good engines again...
Chicago to Portland priority shipping heads westbound through Oregon.
Illinois Railnet lettered B23's 6 and 7 idle away on this brisk February afternoon.
An unpatched BN SD70MAC brings this coal train east through the lengthy Rte. 56 Depot enroute to the NS in Chicago.
