A normal CP AC44 sits under a fast moving sky.

Early in the day, or late in the night as some may say, an IHB slug set sits crewless under a nice sky.

A nice set of road power, with 3 GP's leading, pulls up before heading out on the high iron.

An eastbound South Shore electric heads past one of the last old CSS&SB signals left on the line after a massive signal upgrade; the harbingers of doom for this one are just behind it.

With 20 minutes of sunlight left, this fairly new and very clean ES44DC leads a new NS SD70M-2 past the co-op in the little Illinois hamlet of Malta.

UP's Proviso-DesMoines manifest high tails is under the CNW signals at Nelson.

UP's Proviso-DesMoines manifest high tails is under the CNW coal tower at Nelson.

With very tight spots of sun in this 30' rock cut, the leader of this BNSF Z-train is brilliantly illuminated as its rolls west.

UP's BRAND NEW C&NW Heritage SD70ACe heads out of Proviso on its way to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago, passing under C&NW signals on the way.

UP's BRAND NEW C&NW Heritage SD70ACe sits in the sun at Proviso minutes after being untarped.

The Milwaukee painted switcher passes by one of Chicago's finest on its way to a lumber company.

The crew watches the tight clearances as they head for their destination, a small lumber company at the far south end of Goose Island.

The Bandit is ready to literally jump out from behind a building as it stops just short of North Avenue.

Three engines mingle at the LaGrange plant, former GM 90 and 92, now EMD 90 and 92, and an old EMD switcher. The SD90's were being load tested.

CP's Kingsbury job crawls over the ancient swing bridge toward the Kingsbury Line and eventually Goose Island.