The wind gusts as an extra GALCHI cruises towards Chicago with a BN SD40 up front. A nice accommodation to this old, and presumably abandoned, grain elevator.
Taking Chicago by surprise, one of the last BN painted GPs, still sporting a GP30 carbody, roars over the Des Plaines River in some beautiful Golden Light. H1 GP60B, H4 SD60M, & Gevos in trail.
The daily ICOG4 cruises by the historic depot in downtown Lemont with a pair of AC44s.
Not sure on the railroad, but an SW switcher rests in the Hoffman Transportation plant in Channahon, attached to tank loads.
A trio of SD40s race over the Des Plaines River, en route for Galesburg... on the other side of the state.
On a sunny summer afternoon, an IHB Genset & GP rescue presumably NA11 from Norpaul Yard in Melrose Park. The quartet of Harbor power is seen here, passing through Broadview and into LaGrange... a... (more)
With a fresh set of PTC, a former Santa Fe Dash 9 leads an H4 60m on the 202 local out of Joliet.
A pair of IHB “Baseball Geep”s power NA11 into Bensenville, seen here under Tower B12. Tons of track construction contaminate this area, as seen here, all a part of creating B13, as well as gi... (more)
A pair of KCS engines power the Q train ROBCHI to chicago, passing through the truss over the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal.
On a warm summer evening, a pair of 40s, and a 60m, power todays 105 to Galesburg.
After running the 70m behind the GP, Y700 accelerates out of Dekalb getting ready for the 40 mile voyage down the Troy Grove Branch.
LPJ05 approaches Triumph... where they plan to drop a few cars at the elevator.
After being killed in nowhere Iowa for multiple days due to storm damage, 1996 makes its way through West Chicago with a fresh crew from Clinton. The SP Heritage would later make a trek up the UP ... (more)
LPJ05 rounds the bend, at a snails pace, as it approaches a red signal for the BNSF Aurora Sub diamond.
A GP15 & 70m, todays LPJ05, switch Triumph’s elevator... switching & setting out around 6 to 7 cars.
