As the sky is dotted by some puffy, cumulus clouds, the 183 crawls across Scott Street in Franklin Park, building its outbound train.

A BCOL -9 leads M336 down towards Jct 16 & B12 on a beautiful Autumn morning.

A tasty SOO duo heads east through Franklin Park. He would soon head back into Bensenville Yard.

These classic SOO Lines are still standing in Soo paint, but for how much longer?

SOO 6061 and SOO 6042, both in candy apple red paint, pull out of the Bensenville Yard for headroom.

G39 heads for Proviso Yard, behind a pair of old, UP GE's.

After bringing G35 into the yard, the power has cut off from the train and is waiting to head to the diesel house. Quite the nifty lash-up. We have a pair of CN C40-8M "cowls" and a SOO Line GP38-... (more)

A pair of Soo Lines, looking mighty fine in candy apple red, pull out of Bensenville Yard for headroom.

After bringing 182 into the yard, a GY12 crew is now in charge of the candy apple red Soo Lines, as they pass a pair of CP Geeps that are headed back into the yard.

SOO 4512 has certainly seen better days, but it's still kickin' in Milwaukee Road paint.

Metra 5 pulls a few ballast cars towards a siding east of Bensenville to tie down for the day, after working the Elgin Subdivision since earlier that morning.

I originally missed this train at Rosemont, but catching up to this guy was pretty easy considering he was getting held at Belmont for a crew change.

It's a three way meet at Franklin Park. G39, with UP power, slowly makes its way out of the yard, while a former Milwaukee Road GP40 backs into the yard, On one of the mains, CP 498 awaits its sig... (more)

The CREATE special, running as the NS 951, has just departed the CP's Bensenville Yard and is ready to make its tour all around Chicagoland. A classy, A-B-A set of NS covered wagons have the honor... (more)

A southbound manifest makes its way down the IHB, with a CN ES44DC and CN SD75I for power.