A oddball visitor to Joliet, NS's Wabash heritage unit, switches around the south yard.

A NRE genset pokes out from its fenced in fortress at Midwest Generation in Joliet. This is where the UP" Plaines" went to before the plant switched over to natural gas.

Y JOL101 heads west out of Joliet with a pair of GP38-2's, the trailing unit being a Smurf.

A nice, all EMD lash-up thunders out of Joliet with the 102 local to Galesburg.

Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe proudly carries the stars and stripes on the long hood, at Joliet, Illinois, on November 10, 2010. Happy Independence Day!

A neat catch, in the form of the experimental "Pill" scheme, thunders out of Joliet with the westbound Y JOL201.

Metra 207 leads a outbound train into Joliet for a station stop.

BNSF Smurf GP38-2 2050 trails on the rear of the 201 local in Joliet.

The engineer cranks her into run 8 as these two Geeps smoke it up out of Joliet. BNSF has taken most, if not all of these EMDX's off lease.

A repainted bonnet heads for the CSX with a vehicle train after departing the yard at LPC.

Global IV yard job pokes it head out the north end of the yard at dusk.

A UP vehicle train exercises its trackage rights on the BNSF, as its three units head west through Joliet.

With a clean ES44C4 on the point, this westbound Z train picks up speed out of Joliet.

With a signal at the Rock, these two GTW (KCS paint) SD40-3's thunder out of town with a Herzog ballast train.