1 of the 10 remaining BCOL barn units leads U709 through the condos on the Near South Side at 16th & Wabash Ave.

Speeder in front of the railcar to North Vancouver.

Alco C420 and slug on the neighboring track.

Hodgepodge Of Power After working Kitchener Yard, a daylight run of CN 533 heads east back to Mac Yard with a hodgepodge of power as seen crossing the grand river.

BCOL 4617 races down "Otis Hill" Westbound on a Sunday Afternoon heading towards downtown Chicago

A BC Rail barn leads the way west on NS 61F, shortly after exiting the BRC at Cragin. The train will continue down the CP to B12, where it'll hop onto the CN Waukesha Sub.

16 years after the beginning of the lease, BC Rail is still going strong... After a long wait for a crew on the BRC, BCOL #4617 roars through River Grove, IL on the CP Elgin sub in perfect ligh... (more)

BCOL 4617 leads a sand train west out of the city, about to pass the Hanson Park station.

One of only eight BC Rail cowls that is still active leads CN X276 on CN's Kingston Sub, with relatively new CN 3235 trailing. With CN 276 just ahead of it and congestion in Taschereau Yard, it wo... (more)

I was expecting to go north to simply catch local power, the Byron hill helper set, and common power; the last thing everyone expected was a BC Rail C40-8M to lead north. Here it is rolling past ... (more)

CN 3174 meets BCOL 4617 at the IL-60 road crossing in Mundelein, IL. These units are becoming more and more hard find as lots of them have gone into storage or are being relocated to Canada.

BCOL 4602 leads Q149 west past the old GTW g-heads in Merrillville.

BCOL 4625 (CN 4625) leads a colorful consist south on a sand train that originated in Poskin, WI near Barron. The fourth unit is an SW1500 owned by the sand plant, likely headed to Stevens Point f... (more)

With an uncommon BC Rail painted C40-8M leading, CSX manifest freight Q635 heads through Bergen, New York, catching the last bit of fading light on a winter evening. This was one of only a few BC ... (more)