JNLC 5 and SLSF 1630 pose side by side and look pretty for the many photographers at the ‘Shay It Forward’ night photoshoot.

JNLC 5 durning the ‘Shay It Forward’ photo charter at the Illinois Railway Museum.

The Metra display for Franklin Park Railroad Days 2023 arrives to the event as It creeps past Tower B12 with a push-pull of Metra 405 the Milwaukee Road heritage locomotive and one of Metra’s br... (more)

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's water treatment plant In Stickney owns three SW1 locomotives and one MP15 locomotive. After a three year long absence of the MP15 d... (more)

Squeezed in during the middle of Metra rush hour, R CHI8884 09S sprits down the “Zeyphr Track” behind a outbound Metra express as they pass the historic Hinsdale depot.

It’s a busy weekday afternoon in Downtown Aurora as C-BTMCXC crosses Galena Blvd on the 2,000 foot long section of elevated trackage splitting through the heart of downtown. The elevated trackag... (more)

Chicago’s Classic Rock. Riding along home Santa Fe rails, a early morning M-GALCHI arrives at Hodgkins with GP60 169 leading SD60M 1436, slowly coming to a stop at CP Harbor for preparati... (more)

Weed sprayer season is back, as a CPKC weed sprayer train sprays It’s way east through Kirkland with a KCS SD70MAC leader. With the recent merger, seeing consistent KCS motive power around the C... (more)

Missabe Miracle… high fives went all around the St. Louis River Road bridge In Proctor, MN on June 6, 2022 as the 17:00 E Lead job kicks cars at DMIR’s old Proctor yard in golden hour sun with... (more)

After holding for three Metra’s at 16th Street, and for Amtrak 391 to head south… CN M337 with a duo of Illinois Central SD70’s, #1035 and #1032 get underway past 18th Street on home Illinoi... (more)

CN A407 heads north on a haze afternoon with two Illinois Central SD70s, 1005 & 1022, and a CN NA scheme SD40-2W. They are seen here splitting the ancient Illinois Central coaling towers that can ... (more)

Pounding the old GM&O and ATSF main’s on the former Rock Island, IAIS BICB heads west past the historic UD Interlocking Tower at Joliet Union Station. IAIS 513, Iowa Interstate’s Rock Island h... (more)

After missing my chance to photograph this rare BN executive SD70MAC duo leading eastbound coal loads for the NS, I made sure to not miss my chance to get them coming back west with empties, even ... (more)

Sun begins to set as a late running Metra 919 makes It’s last stop at the historic Lockport depot before terminating at Joliet with METX 104, the City of Chicago inspired locomotive.

Trying to keep my balance standing in the rushing waters of the Hog Creek, GLLX 4428, one of two remaining Grand Trunk & Western GP9’s still in active services switches cars around Lineage Logis... (more)