In the bright spring sun, NS coal loads for Detroit Edison tread east across the Des Plaines River in Riverside. Todays train is sported by a pair of EMDs, with the lead being a BN Executive 70mac... (more)

With a long string of coal loads for Detroit Edison, BNSFs lone PTC pinwheel 70mac takes the charge as they cruise through LeLand, and into the sunrise.

Minutes after sunrise, BNSFs sole PTC equipped pinwheel 70mac, with coal loads for Detroit Edison, rumbles through Plano aside the former CB&Q Depot.

In the final rays of blue hour, a trio of CN EMDs rocket north under Monee with a manifest for CNs Kirk yard.

TPWs Lafayette turn screams south after taking the connection onto the former Monon, with a trio of matched SD40s in the lead.

After traversing the Mendota & Chicago subs during the day, NS takes control of coal loads for Detroit. Seen here snaking through downtown Chicago under the cover of darkness, with a BN 70mac up f... (more)

With a Proviso yard crew shuttling this train east, UPs MCLPR crawls into Wheaton with a rebuilt SD40, along with various Aces & GEs, in the lead.

With time for the crew running thin, UPs Clinton, IA to Proviso, IL manifest rumbles towards Metra territory, where they'd park up for a relief. Todays train was the talk of the town with a former... (more)

On an unseasonably warm winter morning, the stars would align for UPs Clinton, IA to Proviso, IL road train to feature a former C&NW workhorse SD40 taking the charge. Seen here ducking under its r... (more)

A short 45mins after sunrise across the northern Illinois countryside, NS loads for Detroit cruise eastward in the shining sun with a rebuild 70mac & AC44EV for power.

Now Amtrak, but formerly BN and before that CB&Q, this old depot inside Plano has seen quite the number of movements in its many years standing. Today is no different, as NS loads for Detroit rumb... (more)

On a crisp sunny morning, the small town of LeLand is awoken by the unmistakable sound of a 70mac cooking through… today, with loads for Detroit via NS.

One of the more scenic and undershot mainlines in the United States, UPs Montana Sub offers great sights along its vast mainline. However, it only sees two operations… the northbound & southboun... (more)

Rounding the sharp bend through Ancona, UPs Military schemed locomotive takes charge of UPs Chicago to California stack train running on foreign rails.

After a line of snowstorms blanketed northern Illinois the previous day, UPs “Spirit of the Union Pacific” Military schemed locomotive head ends the UP trackage rights Z train on the BNSF Sout... (more)