It’s about 1:15am as the Millsdale Oil Local just finished It’s work at Olin in Lemont, minutes later seen here blaring through Downtown Lockport with its original EJ&E Leslie RS3L horn.

The clock strikes midnight as CN’s Millsdale Oil Local (CN L545) works Olin in Lemont, with a classic EJ&E SD38-2 leading.

A pair of Indiana Rail Road SD9043MACs sit outside of Senate Ave Yard with the Sunday-Friday SAHW.

A pair of SD9043MACs arrive at Bear Run Coal in the sunset on a warm March evening.

The sun sets as SAHW continues out of Switz City with a pair of classic SD9043MACs.

UP 4014 crosses grassy point into Minnesota while tornado warnings and severe storms happen to the south.

After working 2 industries in Batavia for a few hours on a gorgeous, warm, and sunny winter afternoon, R-CHI452 heads back south to Eola Yard on the BNSF West Chicago Spur. This line is the oldest... (more)

B09 heads east up Otis Hill on the NS Chicago Line with some fall foliage

UP 2182 and UP 1558 shove a lead a pulldown at Global 4 in Elwood.

One of the treats around the South Chicago, Illinois/Northwest Indiana stateline is the South Chicago & Indiana Harbor Railway, which was known as the Chicago Short Line until 2003. SCIH (CSL) 30,... (more)

The sun begins to set during another busy weekday evening in Downtown Chicago as Southwest Service train 823 heads south out of the South Concourse of Chicago Union Station (CUS).

After loading grain at a grain elevator a few miles to the north, BLOL 7591 makes it’s way back south with loaded grain hoppers to take back to Gibson City. The train would later tie down at Ris... (more)

In the last ray of sunlight, a pair of HLCX GP38-2’s lead BNSF GALBUR at track speed west under the BNSF Transcon in Cameron on the Ottumwa Subdivision.

Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad’s Yard-Hill Job crosses the Dead River trestle bridge on a cold and rainy fall afternoon in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

BNSF GP39E 2740, still wearing its Burlington Northern paint, leads the L-CHI105 westbound on the BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision ducking under the Ransom grain elevator.