Even though the BN merger was two years old, it's mostly a CB&Q event as an eastbound train completes its work at Eola and departs for Cicero Yard in Chicago. The lead unit was purchased by the B... (more)

Thirty-five minutes out of Chicago, the Burlington's Denver Zephyr slams through Eola at 79 mph. It's business as usual today for the pair of E7s leading the train. However, two weeks after this ... (more)

Aurora bound commuter.

The Empire Builder at full stride on the Q’s three track thoroughfare.

Only 5 weeks after Amtrak began operations, two former Burlington E8s hustle the eastbound San Francisco Zephyr to Chicago. The train is running "wrong main". From a Kodachrome slide.

Fourteen months after the BN merger, an ex-Burlington GP30, now renumbered as the "Four Deuces", leads a westbound piggybacker into the curve near East Eola. From an Ektachrome slide.

An ex-Northern Pacific U25C plus two more 6 axle GEs hustle an empty westbound coal train beneath the EJ&E bridge on a fine June morning some 35 years ago. Scanned from a Kodachrome original slid... (more)

In what may be a never to be repeated scene, a WC SD45 leads a westbound under the EJ&E and CB&Q signals as it approaches Eola Yard.

The "J" logo is still visible on the bridge as Metra 186 is framed by the EJ&E overpass, old telegraph wires, and Chicago Subdivision MP 33. This train is part of the evening rush from Chicago to... (more)

8088 and NS 9154 pull hard on an 8,000ft+ long doublestack

One of BN's "Generation II" Caterpillar powered geep rebuilds, BN 2003, is heading back to Eola Yard with the "Irish Mail" job along the Aurora Branch, crossing Aurora Ave on a fine October day.

406 is passed by her sister, 407, at MP21. 407 is doing 65mph on an express to Naperville. Notice 406's silver-ringed windshield and the reflection on 407.

BN 5346 leads a unit train of emptys west on the center track.

BN 6156 leads the BN's GP9 'B-units', 602, 601, 600, and another SD9, BN 6118. What a consist this was!