A CSX SD50-2 and CSX SD50-3 await a crew to pick up a coke train in Hammond Indiana near the Horseshoe Casino

Its near sunset, and a UP SD70ACe leads a NS C40-9W on a manifest train bound for Union Pacific's Proviso Yard

NKP 765 along with the Illinois Terminal and Wabash heritage units lead NS O99 west through Decatur on its final moves into the yard for the night

BNSF 9203 leads a coal drag east on the NS Chicago Line past the Amtrak station

Metra F40PHM-2 #196 passes the old Wabash depot in Chicago Ridge with an outbound train just before the start of rush hour.

NKP 765 leads an excursion train west off of the IHB mainline and onto the CP Elgin Subdivision at Franklin Park

Holding down on one of the yard leads to Markham Yard, the engineer aboard WC 2001 has a chat with a fellow yard crew member before backing his consist up into the yard shops

A repainted SD60I and veteran SD60 lead an empty ethanol train west towards Chicago where they will interchange with the CP

A Metrolink F59PH leads an outbound train to San Bernadino under Santa Fe searchlight signals

SOO SD60 #6024 and CEFX AC4400CW #1046 lead CP 273 westbound out of CP's Bensenville Yard

NS's Penn Central heritage unit leads an empty oil train down the ex-NYC mainline in Whiting Indiana.

Amtrak 3, the Southwest Chief heads west through Delhi Colorado passing by the last wig-wag in mainline service.

NS 23N heads west on the NS Chicago Line on a beautiful winter day

3 former SP SD45T-2's lead an eastbound manifest on the ex-Rock Island in Gem Kansas.

Amtrak's Empire Builder picks up speed as it heads west through Pewaukee Wisconsin