loaded coal train backs into Will County Power. You can see how the line curves to the left and then back to the right again directly behind the power in this view. See photo 304755 for a recent... (more)

A rare sight as the first of four UP trains on the ex Santa Fe goes by. The other three were intermodal trains.

An unusual sight on the Santa Fe for two reasons-a local is working from the EB main and a UP vehicle train. This is the first time I've seen either!

Engineer on a local working with what was once mainline power looking worse for the wear!

Y JOL201 has finished up its work at Lockport as the 784 leads the way back west to the Joliet Yard.

8:03, wake up. 8:25, get a text about the oil local and the power. 8:35, I fly out the door and get right on I-88 to 355 South. 9:05, I park the car. 9:07, I get the equipment set up. 9:10 the oil... (more)

An IC engine leads two BNSF and two CN units down the former GM&O.

M395 highballs south through Lockport on the old GM&O, with a Santa Fe Warbonnet in charge.

M395 hustles south through Lockport on the old GM&O with over a hundred cars. Once this train reaches the old ATSF in Joliet, it will become the M CNIKCK, a manifest to Kansas City, Kansas.

The daily CN IKCK rumbles the Lockport station as it proceeds south towards Joliet.

Milw 261 steamer pulls an excursion train from Union Station in Chicago to Joliet on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub in the late summer.

BNSF 557, sporting sharp Warbonnet paint, leads the CHI102 local through Lockport.

I went to Lockport to catch 90230, and missed it by a half a minute. The gates went up as soon as I got to the crossing. In the process of going to Lockport I missed an SD60M on the Chicago sub. T... (more)