Norfolk Southern local crew waits for the Lancaster and Chester to arrive at the interchange in 2013 as a fellow railfan lines up his shot.
A nice collection of EMD's bask in the morning sunlight at GM Yard in Hodgkins. This is L CHI104, the local from Galesburg to Hodgkins. Typically, the power on 104 handles the duties of the night ... (more)
CNW 5096 brings a Falcon past the soon to be torn down Dixon, IL depot on a brutally cold day in January of 1985.
On a cold January 2, 1988, a Burlington Northern freight powered by a pair of EMD GP50s heads west through Riverside, Illinois on the railroad’s busy three-track main line between Chicago and Au... (more)
BNSF GP50 3167 and GP60 167, both still wearing Santa Fe blue and yellow, team up to switch the east end of Clyde Yard in Cicero. In the process, they meet an outbound Metra train, making its way ... (more)
With about an hour left until sundown, BNSFs "Lockport Local" begins its work switching out the Grief Packaging Company in downtown Lockport. Running long hood forward, former Santa Fe G... (more)
TP&W transfer job with deliveries to the ADM ethanol plant and to the Collier Yard in Bartonville (interchanges with Union Pacific and Keokuk Junction Railway).
NS P36 ouot of Rock Hill rendezvous' with Lancaster and Chester Train 12 back in 2013.
Tom Golden photo.
A pair of former Santa Fe geeps switch Cicero as a duo of BN geeps stand by.
A CNW GP50 leads a trio of Conrail EMDs on an eastbound APL stack train on the IHB. Tom Golden photo.
There is plenty of action on the IHB in Blue Island as a southbound CNW freight passes by a northbound manifest. Tom Golden photo.
Conrail Train PXPI takes an alternate route via the Youngstown Line. Normally this train traverses the Cleveland and Fort Wayne lines.
Mississippi Export’s only GP50, MSE 68, sits under the shops in Hurley, MS on this cool November night.