The Illinois Terminal Belt Railroad creeps along with this empty grain train from Clinton to Heyworth. This train came off the CN at Clinton and shuttles between Heyworth and Decatur for Staley. T... (more)

Both days we were here the 258 (Old 20T) was a small stack train in the morning eastbound. Here 258 is poking along following 256 into Decatur. This is a Kansas City, MO, to Rutherford, PA, daily... (more)

We saw 258 a couple of times on our trip, and the train was about this big both days. Clearly, this train is checking off the PSR boxes to have it DP-d. Here, the train passes over the switch at D... (more)

The Voltz Yard in Kansas City, MO, to Oakwood Yard in Detroit, MI, roadrailer struggles along the Springfield District about 10 miles east of Springfield. A lone BNSF unit works hard to keep all t... (more)

The Voltz Yard in Kansas City, MO, to Oakwood Yard in Detroit, MI, Roadrailer blast under the old CNW St. louis line at Curran, about 10 miles west of Springfield. A lone BNSF unit works hard to k... (more)

The Oakwood Yard in Detroit, MI,to Avondale Yard in Kansas City, MO, auto parts train rolls thru downtown Springfield on the NS Springfield District. The downtown is on the change as big funding ... (more)

I was glad to see #7 have a combo set to show the new and old era back in 2022 I am not at all excited for the new locomotives, but as with the railroad, nothing stays the same. Speaking of which,... (more)

Two Chicago Transit Authority trains negotiate the interlocking at CTA Tower 18 on the elevated routes over Lake Street and Wells Street in Chicago, Illinois, on November 8, 2018.

The last Metra of the night for Fox Lake meets SOO 1003 at Healy.

SOO 1003 passes a rather large crowd at Rondout as it makes its was to Western Ave Yard in Chicago.

METX 9 a former Cotton Belt unit (SSW 2590) works a ballast train used to dump rock at the Edgington Street grade crossing rebuild project in Franklin Park.

EMDX 7215 at the former EMD plant in La Grange.

The power for the Midwest Mexican Express waits on the south end of Bensenville Yard prior to departure later in the evening.

Belt Railway of Chicago Alco C424 Nos. 603 and 604 cross over to Track 1 on the Indiana Harbor Belt main approaching the Burlington Northern overpass at La Grange, Illinois, on February 7, 1987. N... (more)

TP&W's intermodal train from Galesburg approaches it's destination of the East Peoria yard behind 2 SD45T-2's.