BNSF 1507 sits with the other power awaiting repairs at the shops

BN Operation Livesaver GP28M #1523, a BN GP15-1, and a bluebonnet B23-7 lead M-IHBGAL through Joliet. Notice the unique red and white stripe, a unique characteristic of BN's operation livesaver en... (more)

BNSF 1514 accompanies a colorful assortment of diesels at the Cicero diesel facility, including FURX 1176, a former Texas Mexican (KCS subsidiary) GP40-3.

A Noyes Local crewmember manually throwing the switch in Fisher for a meet with eastbound Clay Boswell coal loads...

Grand Rapids Turn leaving Superior

The Wilmer - Sioux Falls local rolls westbound.

A pair of BN White face geeps idle the day away.

The Sears Tower lurks over a pair of geeps after completing their switching duties on the West end of Western Ave.

It's always cool to see a local with a caboose. Here after flying up the River Sub, BNSF 1508, with matching caboose, comes to a quick stop so the conductor can throw the Derail.

The Crystal City Local sits tied down in the yard with a caboose while UP's LSH08 local, with a chronically smokey GE, comes off the BNSF River sub and onto the UP's seperated Crystal City Industr... (more)

Awaiting signal to leave the CN center siding in East Dubuque

The Cuba Local, doing about 40 per, rounds the curve at Pacific where the tracks begin to head south. In about a mile the local will stop to switch a local warehouse.

Eastbound BNSF local with BNSF 1518, EMDX 743, 2871, and 2934 and a few grain cars cross the Valley City treastle (3886 feet long and 155 feet high)