Metra MPI units have been reassigned to the Heritage Corridor for now since the brand new Metra EMD SD70MACH's have taken over the former Milwaukee lines. Here a short Heritage Corridor train arri... (more)

The outbound Texas Eagle arrives at Joliet Station to pick up passengers on a beautiful afternoon.

Four Illinois Central SD70 locomotives brings in a local from Gary as seen here putting their train away at Joliet Yard.

BNSF 7562 leads a intermodal West through Brookfield.

Indiana Harbor Belt GP40P-2 4010 (ex-Southern Pacific 7600; née-SP 3197) and GP40-2 4012 (ex-Union Pacific 1303, née-SP 7625) work the railroad's Blue Island Yard, as IHB slug 2021 (ex-IHB 3GS21... (more)

Pulling a mixed freight, two Illinois Central SD70s pull hard on a large mixed freight on a windy Spring day.

With a lone GP60, NS Local D76 shoves back to grab two centerbeam cars in Mount Vernon, Illinois on a breezy spring morning.

On a cloudy spring afternoon, an EX-Santa Fe GP60 is seen moving cars from track to track in Centralia, Illinois.

CSX SD70MACe 4732 leads M642 North through Blue Island, about to make the turn East for Barr Yard.

CSX SD70MACe 4732 leads M642 West through South Holland.

The BN ran quite a few St. Paul to Chicago intermodal trains each way along the Aurora Sub daily. The trains were neat to get cause you never knew what they would come with. Hail as an "Exped... (more)

An eastbound intermodal train heads for Chicago during a winter storm with 3-4 axle units. The train is passing thru East Dubuque on the Aurora Sub in the late 90s. Scanned slide from January 1997... (more)

Coal trains on the Santa Fe race track looked out of place. These York Canyon Coal trains were heading to McCook and points east. Usually, these heavy trains got 3-4 big GEs for power. As seen he... (more)

The BN ran 2 intermodal trains to Denver out of Chicago. One ran early morning into Galesburg, and the other one at night. The night one has stayed thru the BNSF era. Train 65 was normally the day... (more)

Th BN tested 4 SD60MAC's and then later in 1993 they placed an order for 350 SD70MAC's. The SD60s were the test bed to what became a huge investment in the coal power fleet with the purchase of th... (more)