Usually, the Transcon is a place of speed, especially its intermodals. Unfortunately, today, a dark signal at MP 23.1 has forced BNSF 4859 to slow down as it crosses Sawmill Creek. B&W mode w/ ora... (more)

The conductor hangs out the doorway as the the train begins to pull away. Pretty soon, this scene will change slightly when operations change over to the new 143rd St. Station(currently under cons... (more)

No Dash-9's on this consist! A GP39-2 leads this intermodal train eastbound on the Transcon. B&W mode w/ orange filter.

No orange on this engine! A beautiful looking warbonnet(albeit wearing BNSF markings) heads through the curve relatively slow, due to the MOW crew sitting on the siding just to the left of the pho... (more)

Currently sitting on 10th Street, & blocking 11th, 13th, & Division Streets, the "Millsdale Turn"(CN R95491) changes crews in Lockport(very rare). Once the crew change is complete, CN R95491 will ... (more)

METX 421 sits in CUS's North Concourse, awaiting departure.

A Metra train sits stored at Oglivie Transportation Center with a "Stop" indicator tucked into its handrails. The people on the platform are going to see the CNW Heritage Unit. B&W mode with orang... (more)

Visitors exit the Heritage locomotive. The unit looks good through an orange filter in B&W.

Visitors go to visit the CNW Heritage Unit as it sits in Oglivie Transportation Center.

With a thin fog hanging in the air, a Chicago-bound Metra train heads along Commerce St. and past the relocated Symerton depot.

A lone F40PH sits at LaSalle Street Station beneath the towering cityscape that is Chicago.

METX 117 pulls into Lemont. Today's rush on the Heritage Corridor went off without a hitch. Yesterday, train 21 whacked a semi-trailer and derailed east of here.

An empty coal train heads west on the former MoPac White River Line. The line, like Cotter, is past its glory days, with weeds growing upon the once great mainline. Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: GE AC4400CW
Location: Cotter, Arkansas, USA
Locomotive #: UP 6851
Train ID: None
Photo Date: June 12, 2006

On display at the Memorial is MP 11351, which was built in 1948 at the MoPac's Sedalia, Missouri shops. It was later nearly destroyed by vandals in Cotter in 1989, and then had its windows and doo... (more)

On display at the Memorial is CRIP 17843, which was converted from a 1915 bowcar into a caboose in 1944 at the Rock's Silvis, Illinois shops. Railroad: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (Rock Island)
Locomotive: Caboose
Location: Cotter, Arkansas, USA
Locomotive #: CRIP 17843
Train ID: None
Photo Date: June 15, 2006