Metra 406 makes a station stop in Tinley Park with a inbound train.

Iowa Interstate BICB with the Rock Island heritage locomotive leading rockets through Downtown Marseilles as it passes the old Rock Island depot.

Iowa Interstate train BICB bound for Council Bluffs crawls through Downtown Joliet across Bridge 407 with the Rock Island heritage locomotive, IAIS 513 leading. This historic lift bridge over the ... (more)

-30 windchills didn’t stop myself and countless others from going out in cold weather to follow Union Pacific’s Troy Grove Job. All the blowing snow and intense winds over the past weekend had... (more)

UP GP40-2 1417 leads the Troy Grove local South near Shabbona, IL, busting some nice drifts at Duffy Road.

Alton and Southern's pair of UP SD60's leads BNAS south in late summer sun.

One of the new kids on the block rounds the corner at A2 with a late morning deadhead.

One of Metra's new MACs leads a Sunday afternoon outbound on the former Milwaukee.

IDTX Charger 4633 leads Amtrak train 319 South through Lockport, kicking up some freshly fallen snow.

ATSF 575 leading an eastbound Q train takes five at Joliet near Union Station while the Employee Passenger Special gets under way just ahead of it. Soon both trains will be headed for Corwith Yard... (more)

Santa Fe Alco S2 2330 Idles next to the shop at Corwith yard. in Chicago on a dreary day in November 1974 as it waits for its next job. Back in those days there were a number of these working the... (more)

Soon after the sun rests below the horizon, BNSFs Chicago to Galesburg road local rounds the bend into Lemont with a very unique assortment of power. Seen here traversing over the Des Plaines rive... (more)

Finding the last pocket of sunlight on a fading summer evening, newly rebuilt Metra 134 screams out of its Glen Ellyn station stop, producing quite the smoke spectacle.

After traversing NS over the cover of darkness, BNs empties for North Antelope Mine in Wyoming are seen making their way down the BNSF Racetrack with a rebuilt 70mac up front.

CSX 9969 leads W003, the Geometry Train West through Minooka.