Continuing its trip to Nahant Yard in Davenport for the night, the royal Canadian Pacific business train hustles south through Princeton, skirting the mighty Mississippi. CP's sharp set of covered... (more)

CP 1401, 4106 and 1900 roll south across the Turkey River with the royal Canadian Pacific business train in tow. The train departed Hastings, MN this morning and is enroute to Nahant Yard in Daven... (more)

BRC 232, 301 and 300 team up to shove a lengthy cut of cars through the massive Clearing Yard. The train is slowly working its way over the hump. The diesel house can be seen in the background.

Metra was in the process of moving two Charter private cars from Chicago Union Station to LaSalle Street. Seen here crossing Hickory Creek on Joliet's east side, NIRC 8 is in charge. #8 was built ... (more)

There was no shortage of photos as the BLE trio shoved limestone loads under the Duluth docks.

BLE 906, 904 and 909 make for a very nice tunnel motor trio as they take headroom under CN Dock 6 in Duluth, MN. The loaded Minorca bound limestone train would soon make way up Proctor Hill and in... (more)

In sweet light, a trio of Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motors make their assault on Proctor Hill as they lead a train of loaded limestone to the yard. The clouds were playing games all evening, but... (more)

Metra's AAPRCO special is making the rounds around Chicagoland. As thunderstorms build up north on this Saturday afternoon, Metra F59PHI #90 and F40PH-3 #104 highball south through Lockport, passi... (more)

Hanson Material Service is in the process of bringing 4 empties out of Rocks Etc on a sunny afternoon in Romeoville. Crossing the Des Plaines River, the crew will gain access to the "Bug Line" up ... (more)

Expect the unexpected. While driving through Bedford Park, a surprise was spotted in the parking lot of SeatGeek Stadium, home to numerous Illinois Soccer teams. A former CTA Electric MU, n... (more)

CSDX 2 and 1 finish their morning duties at the drying fields in Willow Springs. The cars in the foreground were dumped not long before this photo. With the 26 cars of human waste all dumped, the ... (more)

A mixed bag of GE's lead a hotshot Phoenix bound Z train past Union Oil, an industry that's served 5 days a week by BNSF.

IC 1000, 1029, 3138 and 3108 lead Glenn-Kirk L536 around the curve in Matteson, exiting the Chicago Sub and approaching the Matteson Sub. The two trailing GP40R's spent quite some time assigned to... (more)

The peacefulness of the small town of Donovan, IL is disturbed by the passing of a Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern grain train. As other grain cars are in the process of being loaded on the eleva... (more)

On this sunny morning, I was quite pleased to see UPY 643 and UPY 610 finishing up their work at Lineage Logistics in West Chicago. Both units are baby tunnel motors (GP15-1's) of Missouri Pacific... (more)