After bringing in a train of ore loads from the Tilden Mine, a 3 Tilden crew departs Eagle Mills, MI with a train consisting of three covered hoppers and two tank cars. The cars are bound for the ... (more)

As the Hon. James L. Oberstar prepares to take on a load of iron ore in Marquette, a pair of CEFX AC44's stand by on the dock. The Oberstar is owned and operated by Interlake Steamship Company.

CN ET44AC #3233, painted to honor our veterans, leads a southbound stack train across the DuPage River on a sunny afternoon in Plainfield, IL.

A veteran Bluebonnet SD40-2 works a pulldown at Clyde Yard's east end, passing East End Tower. Trailing is BNSF 3162, one of five GP50L's ever built. 3162 is unique in the way that it was built fo... (more)

A pair of Cascade green BN EMD's work a pulldown at Corwith Yard in Chicago. The diamonds where the CN Joliet and BNSF Chillicothe Subs cross can be seen in the background. It was a refreshing sig... (more)

Cascade green GP39M #2740 (GP30 carbody) is in charge of the R CHI458 as it builds its outbound train for Eola Yard in Aurora. This unit has led just about every local in Chicagoland in the past f... (more)

The North Outside Industry job, better known as NOSI, makes its way south across the diamonds with the former Illinois Central at Hawthorne. The train consists of cars from Charter Steel and Best ... (more)

On the final day of March, CN L535 (Oil Local out of Glenn Yard) goes about its switching work at Rowell Chemical in Willow Springs. Leading the way is Illinois Central GP40R #3108, wearing deaths... (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)

On a cloudy St. Patrick's Day 2021, the luck of the Irish was with us as a Cascade green GP39E led the way of the Batavia Local. It's seen slowly making its way through Aurora, bound for Eola Yard... (more)

After dumping 13 cars, #3 makes its way to the mainline to prepare its runaround of the train. Closing in on its 69th year of service, #3 has been handling the brunt of the work for the past month... (more)

As BRC's "NOSI" job slowly rolls up to the red signal at 31st Street Interlocking with MP15AC #151 leading, CSX train Y121 prepares to cross over with a CSX GP40-2 in charge. NOSI recent... (more)

With a CSX SD70MAC and a CN Canadian cab Dash 9 for power, M337 awaits a new crew at the plant in Riverside. A recrew would show up about a half hour later and take the train west.

SD40-2 #1755, wearing sharp Santa Fe blue and yellow paint, prepares its departure from Eola Yard with the R CHI476. The first six cars would be set out in Rochelle and the string of sand cars wou... (more)

With quite the unexpected leader in charge, BNSF train R CHI476 hustles west into Shabbona, about to pass under Route 30. SD40-2 1755 was built in 1981 as the ATSF 5187. Today, it still wears shar... (more)