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

EJ&E 659 has the job duty of putting together trains today at the south end of Markham Yard

SOO 700 along with a SOO Caboose sit on display at St. Paul Union Depot during a night photo shoot

Amtrak 120 passes underneath the now removed CB&Q signals with Amtrak 3 The Southwest Chief and heads west towards California

A former Southern GP38-2 leads hot bottle train BH16 east past the remaining searchlight signal bridge on the IHB mainline.

First train of the day is an excellent one, 3 SD40's head east with 68Q bound for New Jersey from CP Trackage and with DM&E and IC&E power leading the way.

A coke train led by some big power heads west on the CN City Track to be delivered to the steel mills of Gary Indiana

A SOO SD60 and CP SD60 block up all of Franklin Park with a very long intermodal train.

NS's business car special heads back east after a night in Chicago with all 4 F units leading the train.

An increasingly rare sight these days, 3 EJ&E SD38-2's led by one of only 2 locomotives with the J-ball logo head east and then north with a manifest to Kirk Yard

Metra F40PH-2 #133 pushes an inbound train, and meets with an outbound train led by F40PH-2 #140

Fall is fading fast as BNSF 6138 leads a coal empty west through Chesterton

A BNSF coal train idles on the siding waiting for Chicago West Dispatch to let them on the main

Former Southern GP38-2 #5115 finds new work at the Chesapeake and Indiana railroad in Union Mills Indiana

A veteran GTW GP9R leads CN R980 east on the Lakefront Subdivision towards Kirk Yard