Nearing the end of another winter's day, the last few rays of sunlight illuminate container train Q-CXOLAC1 07A as it climbs out of the Illinois River Valley and ducks under a pair of classic ATSF... (more)

A westbound trackage rights Intermodal Z-train for Tuscon, Arizona wanders its way across the Chillicothe Subdivision in the middle of February snowstorm.

Five Union Pacific EMD's crawl out of Global III with a eastbound loaded Vehicle train for West Chicago, IL. The train is seen here passing the Rochelle Railroad Park on St. Patrick's Day 2012.

On an overcast Labor Day weekend, a sharp looking pair of Canadian Pacific EMD products slowly maneuver mixed freight #493-06 out of Humboldt Yard and across the 900+ foot Mississippi River truss ... (more)

Just as there is a break in the clouds, Norfolk Southern's high-priority Harrisburg, PA to Kansas City, MO Intermodal train (NS 21T) accelerates westbound on the ex-Wabash Lafayette District. The ... (more)

With the sunlight on last call, a 12-car Kansas City Southern transfer job from Venice Yard operating on TRRA's aptly named Illinois Transfer Subdivision splits a pair of tri-light signals after g... (more)

The crew of this 0700 Proctor switch job have the dynamic brakes howling on their three veteran EMD SD40 products as they fight gravity carefully maneuvering R92181 13 and its heavy train of 132 s... (more)

Autumn is slowly starting to take affect as southbound loaded coal drag UP CNAPW 21 works the small hills south of Akron, Illinois as it heads down Union Pacific's single-tracked Peoria Subdivisio... (more)

Rounding a sharp curve on the northwest part of town, a westbound Cicero (Chicago), IL to South Seattle, WA intermodal Q train (Q-CHCSSE1 18) slides beneath both a classic CB&Q searchlight signal ... (more)

On a crisp, clear autumn afternoon, the southbound Powerton loads (UP CNAPW 28) eases past the large Akron Services Inc grain elevator south of Edelstein on the single tracked ex-C&NW Peoria Subdi... (more)

A couple of BNSF evolution series GE's race a Logistics Park, IL to Long Beach, CA container train westbound through Chillicothe on a gorgeous October afternoon.

As the bluffs of the Mississippi River swallow up the sun for the night, one of BNSF's "Smurf" EMD GP38-2s lead West Quincy based road switcher R HLA8351 09I west through Hannibal, MO's Kiwanis Pa... (more)

Old to new; Three generations of General Electric wide cab products glide downgrade past Kansas City's Union Station with train 112 on main 2 of KCT's East-West Corridor with Knoxville, TN tonnage... (more)

Led by both Union Pacific and CSXT power, containers from the Global IV Intermodal Terminal in Joliet, IL (UP train F-KG4LB1 14Z) claw their way up the 1.1% grade of Edelstein Hill in route to the... (more)

Multiple representations of the EMD SD70 series are seen here on display, making easy work of their short, 24-car LG2G2 16 local as the trio heads back toward home, sprinting east across the Fox R... (more)