A wore out former TFM unit (TFM 2665) KCSM 4565 and KCS 5016 will be on the outbound CPKC 180 later in the evening.

Dead locomotives waits out their last days in Chicago Heights with their fate already sealed by the cutting torch.

CSX train I007, the hot intermodal train from from North Bergen, NJ to Rose Lake Yard in East St. Louis, IL, is arriving on the "mail track" to unload its cargo.

The local has finished its work in Greenville, Il and is headed back to its home base at Rose Lake Yard in East St. Louis, IL.

Just Like Old Times. On a perfect afternoon in Joliet, a pair of EJ&E SD38-2's are in charge of train L521, a local freight from Kirk Yard in Gary, IN. EJ&E power rarely makes it to Joliet ... (more)

Metra 104, the Chicago unit, leads a outbound train into Bensenville, passing Tower B17.

Metra 505 shoves a inbound train out of Bensenville, passing Tower B17.

Passing under the Canadian National bridge as they back onto their train are BNSF Railway ES44DC 7437, ES44C4 8079, Dash 9-44CW 5074, Dash 9-44CW 5488, Dash 9-44CW 994 and ES44DC 7651. Before lon... (more)

A duo of KCSM Gray Ghost AC44s lead CPKC 249 West through Elmwood Park

IC SD70 1028 leads CN L509 South through Shorewood. A DAIR GP9 in third out.

Night Light - CN 8819 peaks out from behind the depot built in the mid 1890s hauling a stack train through town on a very warm February night. This depot has a lot of history in town, and just li... (more)

Heritage Fog CN’s Wisconsin Central heritage pulls train M336 past the Lake Zurich depot on its way south to Kirk Yard (Gary) from Green Bay, Wisconsin on a foggy but mild January night.

ALS 2205 leads UP MBNAS in Bloomington, IL as they are getting there train together before heading south to St. Louis

A pair of Illinois Central SD70s lead TRRA Madison Yard to Centralia, IL local L548. Weather delays and getting through the maze of rail junctions in East St. Louis, IL have outlawed the crew less... (more)

ATSF 128 and 112, both GP60Ms, face off at Corwith Yard, Chicago between runs to the West Coast.