A cold front has dumped 6 inches of snow across northern Illinois. As the first train over this line since the storm MBEMC blasts through the drifts like a destroyer at flank speed. Prepare for bl... (more)

After slugging it out with Mother Nature in near whiteout conditions across northern Illinois MBEMC finds some sunshine just west of Stillman Valley, IL

MBEMC passes under IL Route 72 just wast of Kirkland. In another 10 miles it will work the yard at Davis Jct before heading for Savanna and points west.

In advance of the coldest weather in decades Chicago is in the midst of a 10 inch snowfall. The ICE MBEMC has just passed B17 in Bensenville. The trio of SD40-2s will head across northern Illinois... (more)