Santa Fe employees and their families enjoy a day of train riding on the Santa Fe mainline between Joliet & the Chicago area. The train is about to depart Joliet for an eastward run. I believe the... (more)

Santa Fe employees and their families enjoy a day of train riding on the Santa Fe mainline between Joliet & the Chicago area. Here engines 105 & 104 are running around their special train and will... (more)

This was a special day for ATSF 104 as it was assigned to an employee appreciation passenger special making runs east from Joliet. Here it has arrived at Union Station, temporarily blocking Metra ... (more)

It must be an officer's special eastbound crossing the ATSF and GM&O.

A Santa Fe "quality" TOFC train rolls through Joliet led by a ATSF 574 and two more Superfleet GE's, along with a blue Dash 8-40B. The scheme certainly brightens up a rainy day!

KCS 5004 leads a manifest East through Joliet.

A well worn IC 1032 leads a local past Cherry Hill Road en-route to Westrock just east of this location for their work on this Labor Day 2023.

Welcome back, 1755! Train Y-JOL202 makes It’s way towards Blodgett to switch various Industries overnight as It crosses the Santa Fe-era angle trestle bridge over the I&M Canal in Downtow... (more)

UP 1111 yards MQG4's train at Global 4.

A Touch Of Home At Bridge 198. CN ET44AC #3023, the EJ&E heritage unit, leads northbound train M347 across Bridge 198 and the Des Plaines River in Joliet. With original EJ&E power scattered... (more)

METX 107 shoves a Heritage Corridor train back to the yard as METX 100 waits for its turn to depart Joliet back to LaSalle Street station in the city.

The Amtrak Missouri River Runner arrives on time at Joliet in at the golden hour on a nice evening with an interesting assortment of equipment in all sorts of flavors of Amtrak liveries. They just... (more)

Sitting on the old Rock Island main line at Joliet Union Station is a Metra bi-level commuter train that is about to depart for Chicago on February 22, 1989. The station, built in 1912, once serve... (more)

Built in November 2006, Union Pacific RailPower RP20BD (also labeled a RP20GE by UP) No. UPY 2613 sits at the locomotive facility at railroad’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal at Joliet, Illinois on ... (more)

Union Pacific RailPower RP20BD (UP labels it a RP20GE) No. UPY 2613 sits at the locomotive facility at UP’s Joliet Intermodal Terminal at Joliet, Illinois on November 10, 2010. Flanking it are N... (more)