A pair of Metra SW1500's lead a funeral train of old retired electric cars to a storage location near Rondout Illinois

IHB 1512 leads a cut of potash cars out of Blue Island Yard on a sunny autumn afternoon

A very eclectic lash-up of GP power leads a CRL train out of Burr Oak Yard and onto the Metra Rock Island District main line.

Metra MP36PH-3S #412 arrives at Robbins with an outbound train that will diverge onto the left hand main for the rest of its journey to Joliet

As once was the standard of the late 80's and early 90's, 2 Conrail painted locomotives head eastbound on the NS Chicago Line with NS 5419 on the point and NS 6794 trailing

One of Metra's ex-Amtrak F40PH-3's sets off for downtown Chicago with equipment from this years Franklin Park Railroad Daze

In a rare daylight occurance, the CF&E Fort Wayne to Chicago manifest rides into Blue Island Yard past some UP and IHB power.

The Chicago, Fort Wayne, and Eastern makes its way east towards Fort Wayne on the semi-street trackage in downtown Warsaw Indiana. We chased this train for over 100 miles, but this will be our las... (more)

A very overpowered local heads past the historic Lackawanna Railroad station in Scranton Pennsylvania on a warm summer morning

A Chicago, Fort Wayne, and Eastern manifest freight led by an ex-SP tunnel motor and Florida East Coast GP38-2 as it passes by the historic Pennsylvania Railroad Depot in Plymouth. Years ago this ... (more)

A BNSF SD70ACe, SD70MAC, and ES44AC sit in Calumet City with CSX K253 bound for Avard Oklahoma

IHB 2272, one of 2 operating SW1200's on the Indiana Harbor Belt, leads a yard job past Calumet Tower

Arizona and Eastern 6070 throttles up and speeds out of Chicago on its way to Sturtevant with a passenger special

Former WSOR E9A 103 finds itself back on original trackage for the WSOR Polar Express in Middleton Wisconsin

A faded out warbonnet C41-8W leads an ES44DC and C44-9W on a manifest train being switched out at Eola Yard.