A BNSF GEVo leads an NS counterpart through the Lemont S-curve on its way out of Chicagoland.
A pair of ex-BN SD40-2s lead a baretable train west over the sanitary and ship canal bridge.
The J's only GP38-2 idles while awaiting the arrival of a UP coal train. Once there, it will tie on and take the train to the Waukegan ComEd plant.
One of the best looking WC's left leads a sister WC SD45 as they sit on the IHB before being cleared on the CN at Franklin Park.
A unique CSX GP15, painted in stealth but having a yellow nose without a nose decal. Also note the stuffed animal wedged in above the horn.
Now that's a shiny locomotive! One of NS's brand new 70M-2's leads a manifest at speed, with one of the loudest and most neat sounding horns I've heard.
A trio of NS locos, a C40-9W, SD60, and GP38-2 high hood, roll off the old NYC drawbridge and past the CP Hick tower. The abandoned B&O bridge is on the left, the Pennsy on the right.
One of IHB's GP38-2s works very hard to lug a long string of loaded steel coils out of the Inland Steel plant and down the IHB. The Inland plant is in the background.
A shiny new CP GEVo comes off the drawbridge and leads its train under these old Conrail signals as it heads East past the Inland Steel plant.
One of the daily UP intermodal trains that use BNSF trackage rights cruises past the new Western Springs Metra depot.
The first of two units seen today wearing the number 4599 leads two other GE products past the old ATSF signals and signal bridge.
A pair of CN's finest oppose eachother just south of the BNSF overpass in LaGrange.
A nice surprise in the form of a KCS AC leads a westbound coal train through Western Springs. Might be the last time these Q searchlights guide the way for a KCS locomotive.
A generic Dash 9 leads a GP60B as this Z train sprints west under Q searchlights and past the historic water tower.
Passengers hustle about this vinatge CB&Q depot to board the train as a westbound manifest flies by on an adjacent track.