One of Metra's Rock Island District switchers, NIRC 10 (GP23ECO) arrives at Vermont Street while the 425 brings a mid-day outbound train on platform 2.

Empty grain train GLRBE1 is parked at Granite City waiting for a new crew.

Charging into 2021! Both Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleeper 313 (WEBX 801044) former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built dome/coach 549 (WEBX 801045... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe freight is about to duck under the old Division Street overpass at Lockport, Illinois, on a pleasant autumn day of October 12, 1985.

Train A408, from Kirk Yard to Centralia, IL, approaches the north end of the siding at Edgewood to meet a northbound grain train.

Metra passes beneath the former Rock Island signals.

A Conrail SW900 assists an Amtrak train through 21st Street Interlocking. Tom Golden photo.

A trio of Conrail 4-axles cross the South Branch of the Chicago River at 21st Street Interlocking. Tom Golden photo.

CTA 6711-6712 are seen heading into the State Street Subway after making a run from the Skokie Shops to Midway.

A CN potash train rolls south through Grayslake on a freezing day, getting close to its interchange point with the IHB.

With the mid-July sunset still a little less than an hour away, Iowa Interstate's nightly Blue Island to Council Bluffs road freight very slowly creeps out of the former Rock Island Burr Oak Yard ... (more)

I&M 2084 provides plenty of horn as it passes across 3rd street into downtown Pekin.

A CTA Green Line train passes over the Chicago River above Lake Street. The Green Line uses some of the oldest infrastructure in the "L" system, with some of it dating back to 1892.

One of the newest additions to the Indiana Harbor Belt, IHB 4022 works a cut of cars in the massive IHB Blue Island Yard on a beautiful fall morning.

One of the newest additions to the Indiana Harbor Belt, IHB 4022 works a cut of cars in the massive IHB Blue Island Yard on a beautiful fall morning.