CP 8781 makes its first appearance freshly painted in a special Hapag-Lloyd livery to commemorate CP's intermodal service to the Port of St. John. The locomotive is preparing to lead CP 142 (CSX I... (more)

Metra’s Milwaukee Road heritage unit pulls into Franklin Park 5 minutes late in the fall sunshine.

The 2000 hp PRI/EMD GP20C-ECO locomotives feature a lot of new components: frame, fuel tank, long hood, snoot nose, cab, 8-710G3A prime mover and AC alternator/rectifier – with Canadian Pacific... (more)

CP G47 heads out of Bensenville Yard and up the Elgin Sub through Franklin Park and Tower B-12. Not a whole lot of what CP did in the Chicago area in 2008 still exists between their re-aquisition ... (more)

SD60M No 2295 preps to build G41 as a heavy snow falls.

Southern Pacific EMD SD45 No. 9109 leads an eastbound double stack train past the station at Franklin Park, Illinois, on December 5, 1987. Franklin Park is northwest of downtown Chicago on Soo Lin... (more)

YPRCP (Proviso Yard - CP Bensenville Yard) wastes no time getting into Bensenville Yard with a pair of UP SD40N’s for power, seen here passing Tower B12.

YPRCP (Proviso Yard - CP Bensenville Yard) wastes no time getting into Bensenville Yard with a pair of UP SD40N’s for power.

In August 1968, A Milwaukee Road commuter train heads inbound at B-12 in Franklin Park with a single E9A and cab car. Original Slide. R. W. Richards Photo. Sam Foster Collection.

G41 turns the corner onto the IHB at B12 with the typical pair of UP SD40N's in charge. What was once an interesting railroad scene is now just a bunch of junk and clutter.

A Proviso to Bensenville transfer of a Grain Train to Canadian Pacific passes through Franklin Park.

A former NS B32-8 sits along Franklin Ave at the east end of Bensenville Yard.

A while back, a pair of IHBs “Baseball Geeps” take the NA11 transfer into CPs Bensenvile Yard

Weather beaten CN GP40-2LW 9524 leads CN L501 north through Franklin Park.