Green River. A Chicago Transit Authority electric train navigates downtown as it crosses the Chicago River, which is dyed green for Saint Patrick's Day.

Kloke Locomotive Works Leviathan #63 makes a visit to the Monticello Railway Museum to help honor the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln.

Handsome locos sit idle while waiting to head west.

METX 401 - Oliver "Ollie" Tibbles heads up a double header outbound train approaching the Galewood Metra Station on a nice sunny evening.

BNSF 9157 leads the CPKC 247 out of Franklin Park.

METX 513 did have a nice clean snow plow but that changed about 2 seconds before this photo was taken. A trespasser placed a paint can on the rails in the middle of the bridge prior to the train p... (more)

KCS 4108 leads a grain train eastbound through Elmwood Park..

KCSM 4878 leads the CPKC 247 eastbound through Elmwood Park on a beautiful morning.

NS's Illinois Terminal and Wabash heritage units lead 37M West through Forest Hill.

A former Amtrak locomotive leads an outbound train into Bensenville on a beautiful afternoon.

After dropping off passengers at the Franklin Park Metra Station, METX 512 accelerates out of the station with its next stop of Bensenville ahead.

UP 5307 and UP 4404 charge underneath the coal tower in DeKalb, IL, with UP's OCS train, heading westbound out of Chicago after coming up from the St. Louis area earlier in the day. Tonight's rend... (more)

After trailing on M337 the day before, two Illinois Central SD70s (#s 1038 and 1036) ply the rails of the former IC Iowa Division, seen here rolling past the former depot in Burlington, IL on X338... (more)

CP 8757, CPKC's "Every Child Matters" commemorative unit, leads a KCS GE on CPKC grain train 346 through Des Plaines, IL.

L536 is exiting Chicago city limits and entering Riverdale, IL as it crosses the Little Calumet River on its way south. A pair of IC SD70's are right at home on the old Mainline of Mid America.