On the final approach to Eola yard, the crew of the 452 job flags one of the two unguarded crossings on the north side of Aurora.

Freighter of BNSF Railway with Dash 9 locomotive No.4717 in front moves over Fox River and quickly through the BNSF racetrack, originally part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, throu... (more)

On a cloudy St. Patrick's Day 2021, the luck of the Irish was with us as a Cascade green GP39E led the way of the Batavia Local. It's seen slowly making its way through Aurora, bound for Eola Yard... (more)

SD40-2 #1755, wearing sharp Santa Fe blue and yellow paint, prepares its departure from Eola Yard with the R CHI476. The first six cars would be set out in Rochelle and the string of sand cars wou... (more)

A westbound empty oil train bound for the Dakotas rolls thru downtown Aurora on the BNSF Chicago Sub. The train just met a HLAWNSI and the DP can be seen to the right. This is pretty much the end ... (more)

Downtown Aurora on the BNSF Chicago Sub is kind of a neat area. The trains scoot thru downtown on elevated trackage. A Monroe, MI, empty rolls pass CP 37 as it makes its way towards the Mendota Su... (more)

With a train bound for the Burlington Junction Railway in Montgomery, Cascade green 2740 and H4 3188 make way down the elevated trackage of the Chicago Subdivision in downtown Aurora, IL.

With engineer sunshine behind the wheel, a CSX “powder” 70mac crawls out of CP Liberty, with greens till CP Normantown... seen here ducking under the Rt. 34 bridge on the Aurora Naperville bor... (more)

Former BN 2740 leads the West Chicago local south through Aurora.

A westbound BNSF local crosses the Galena Boulevard overpass in downtown Aurora, Illinois, on November 8, 2019.

On a sunny evening, a pair of H4 GPs take BNSFs NIFA job back towards their Eola Yard. Seen here, the job features a short street running portion between two businesses, one of which has been conv... (more)

With snow falling down, and the city if Aurora standing talk in the background, a trio of OMLX SD40s take a long 80 car sand train around the curve, and Into the W Eola control point.

In some sharp evening winter light, a trio of Belle locomotives crawl south thru Aurora, with 58 cars of manifest for Kirk Yard in Chicago.

Changing of the guard
On February 22, 1992, Burlington Northern commuter trains to Aurora, Illinois, were still being hauled by some vintage BN EMD E9s, but new Metra F40PHM-2 locomotiv... (more)

Westbound coal empties make way out of downtown Aurora with an Executive SD70MAC in charge.