24 hours a day Seven minutes before the 14th of June, the just on-duty crewman of this eastbound UP Manifest prepares to make cut so that the train can go pick up a car from north of the ya... (more)

The northbound City of New Orleans crosses the very unique and unusual Kankakee River bridge. Arch structures are nearly nonexistent in this region, let alone on the former IC, a fairly fla... (more)

A nice lashup led by a former BN SD40-2 has been set up, but is innocent, as it heads westbound by Main St. Station.

The eastbound Illinois Zephyr pulls into Lagrange Station, right next to a map of the city it's entering.

An H1 Dash-9 leads this intermodal through the small rural hamlet of Steward on it's way westbound toward the diamonds of Rochelle.

A BNSF intermodal train works its way eastbound along the still partially frozen Mississippi River.

A BNSF intermodal crosses over the Mazon river in Gorman, passing an extremely bright, almost unfathomably clean white house. Gorman is little more than this, another house or two around the river... (more)

A BNSF intermodal train crosses Coal City's main thoroughfare on a sunny January day.

Finkl & Sons Steel is the only industry left on Kingsbury, but luckily it appears to be in no danger of closing down. The sign explains what Finkl & Sons, steel recyclers, do. Finally, ILSX 900 is... (more)

I did this once, but it was with a model train, and it was because I dropped it. How the Railnet's crew managed to do this is mystery to me.

A busy scene plays out near Finkl Steel, with a front-end loader (probably used for pushing scrap metal) stuck between the train and a fence, and a fork-lift trying to get by. All in a day's work ... (more)

The Argonne Switcher has just gotten going again, and has an unusually long train today, which is composed of all boxcars save one lone hopper. This GP35u is a new but welcome site to the branch, ... (more)

After leaving Finkl Steel, the Chicago Terminal meanders down busy Kingery Avenue. The area appears to be a gritty industrial area, though the area to the right is a yuppy shopping area.

In this photo, we have all the basic tenets of street running: 1.) Cool switcher threading its way through industrial trackage 2.) Idiots (yes, the train is moving forward toward the van) 3. Tight... (more)

The Chicago Terminal is pulling 3 loaded gons out of Finkl Steel on the north side of its Kingsbury street running trackage. Afterwards, it will set out 3 empty gons in place of the loads.