Illinois Railway's Eola Train blasts through Oswego.

Illinois Railway's Job 107 makes an unsual daylight appearance over the Ottawa line, as the lines newly aquired SD45R, 7444, rolls along at 10mph. The train skirts the Fox River just south of Os... (more)

Former BN SD40-2 7285 (now owned by the NREX), still in its Cascade green paint, leads HBR 5008 and 90 cars through Oswego, headed back west to Ottawa.

A westbound bucket train passes under the intermediates near Orchard Road, just a few weeks before de-activation of this classic CB&Q style signal bridge.

The HBR sisters and LTEX 9259 begin to throttle up, as they slowly roll through Oswego.

Quite the classy consist heads west through Oswego, with the IR's Job 107.

The Illinois Railway heads west through Oswego on its way back to Ottawa from the BNSF at Eola.

Job 107 slowly rolls through town, headed for Wedron and at some point in the day, Ottawa.

With a foam party at the pedestrian crossing our party of two gets the shot going through town against the Oswego sign. The hurry up and wait game has begun.

This was a Christmas Eve present that the BN received courtesy of vandals in my hometown of Oswego, IL. Three of four SD9s derailed when the "mainline" half of the crossover switch was thrown rev... (more)

The Illinois Railway's Eola Job returns from BNSF's Eola Yard light engines. Since being bought by OmniTrax, the IR has significantly upgraded their power, although their 2 SD50s are in HBR paint.

An eastbound coal train literally crawls along at about 5MPH, trying not to stop as it waits for clearance onto the Chicago Sub at Aurora.

Westbound empty with a swooshed SD70MAC and two brand spankin' new SD70ACes pass rural suburbia - 40 miles west of Chicago. I saw lots of kids outside playing in the backyard on this beautiful spr... (more)

A pair of BNSF ES44AC GEVO's lead a westbound coal train through Oswego, down the Mendota Sub.