Milwaukee! Cream City, Brew City, Beer City, Brew Town, Beertown, Miltown...whatever you prefer! A Canadian Pacific ballast train with a pair of SD40-2's attracted a lot of attention around town t... (more)

CP 281 had a little mishap this morning...

The ArcelorMittal owns quite the collection of switch locomotives. SW1500 #304 leads a "bottle train" out of the shadows of the East Chicago, IN plant, as it makes way for IHB's Lakefront Yard. Ev... (more)

This vintage SW1200 was built as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy #9271 in 1955 and is now working for US Steel's Granite City Works as their #1191. Here, we see it letting out the smoke as it sho... (more)

With Kirk Yard's old EJ&E roundhouse at the center of it all, Norfolk Southern's eastbound B09 hustles east on the Chicago Line with a pair of SD40-2's. The only thing missing is a freighter comin... (more)

The late evening sun casts a warm glow on a collection of goodies at CN's Woodcrest Shops. We have a GMD GMD1u, a CN GP9RM, a CN GP38-2W and a BLE tunnel motor altogether. It's no surprise seeing ... (more)

Around Milwaukee and Chicagoland lately, we've been graced with the presence of CP SD40-2's on ballast trains. It's been at least eight years, however, since I've seen SD40-2's leading a high prio... (more)

All alone in the weeds. It's a sad ending for Illinois Central SW14 #1450 as it lives out its final days at the National Railway Equipment facility in Dixmoor, IL. It was built new for the IC in 1... (more)

As a long time die hard WC fan, this brought tears to my eyes. Long live the Wisconsin Central!

ArcelorMittal... 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. Would you expect anything less from the world's largest steel producer? At the East Chicago plant, we see their pair of GP15-1's... (more)

Santa Fe all the way! SD40-2's 1614 and 1786, the leader still sporting ATSF blue/yellow, cross the Des Plaines River as they depart Joliet with the Y JOL201. This job switches industries west of ... (more)

In December of 2020, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc purchased ArcelorMittal's US operations for 1.4 billion. Not much has changed except for some signage being removed from the property. It's business as us... (more)

A pair of Warbonnets is nice, but I keep asking myself...was it worth getting a full water bottle thrown at my stomach by the engineer? What a disgrace to the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. First t... (more)

The controls of Metra MP36 415.

As the scrapper goes to work on its current victims, the NREX 1407 awaits its turn. 1407 was built in 1950 as a Great Northern GP7 and was later rebuilt to a GP10 during its time with the Burlingt... (more)