Weekend train approaches New Lenox Station on the Rock Island District.

Burlington Northern Expediter train 42 crosses the Rock River and curves away from Oregon, Illinois, on April 1, 1989. I know, the weather is crappy and it’s “stick” season in the Midwestâ... (more)

Full Mooned At EMD. At blue hour on January 28, 2021, EMDX 70 (SD70ACe) sits at the Progress Rail/EMD LaGrange facility in McCook, Illinois as the moon rises in the background. This locomot... (more)

The Tower protected the crossing of the Nickel Plate Clover Leaf and The Illinois Central Gruber Line.

Westbound Z train approaches the diamonds at Joliet, IL

Union Pacific's Belvidere based local is returning from Loves Park on a chilly January day. The train is passing the Car Barn for Trolley Car 36 which also uses these rails when the weather permit... (more)

IC 1018, an Illinois Central SD70 still painted in the "Deathstar" scheme, leads CN M338 past a small railroad-themed park in Elmhurst, IL on a frigid January night.

AMTK 447 waits to depart Union Station while an Amtrak Turbo Train arrives from St. Louis, passing under the Union Station tower that controls the trackage south of the terminal.

Its rush hour at La Grange, IL and BN 9920 is pouring on the coals as the train rushes through the station without making a stop. BN commuter service was provided between Chicago & Aurora, IL. Ser... (more)

ATSF 500, Santa Fe's first B40-8W, leads a GP60M and another GE on westbound Q-train passing under the large signal bridge near Joliet Union Station and tower. Trackage here is both Santa Fe and S... (more)

ATSF FM H12-44 sits next to the diesel shop at Corwith Yard, Chicago, with 3 Geeps in March 1974. It was built in August 1952 as ATSF 520 and renumbered to 620 3/16/73. The switcher was retired no... (more)

Rounding the sharp bend through Ancona, UPs Military schemed locomotive takes charge of UPs Chicago to California stack train running on foreign rails.

After a line of snowstorms blanketed northern Illinois the previous day, UPs “Spirit of the Union Pacific” Military schemed locomotive head ends the UP trackage rights Z train on the BNSF Sout... (more)

Two sets of power, PA-1 1052 with E-7 1002 and GP-9 495 with F-7(A) 711 are waiting for Combine Train #2 the WABASH CANNONBALL and BANNER BLUE from St. Louis, Missouri. The two sets of power w... (more)

Motorists take evasive action to give way to the Loves Park turn, as the train gingerly navigates the street running on Madison Street.