The daily Kirk to Joliet manifest thunders through "The Heights" with a pair of the orange monsters struggling to keep this mile+ manifest up to speed. Once in Joliet, if time allows, they will bl... (more)
Bound for Rice Yard in Waycross, GA, CSX Q64703 is running on trackage rights as UP FQ64703... banging over the EJ&E diamonds past Jay Tower. Jay Tower is a literal translation of the EJ&E's nick... (more)
In the distance, an American flag salutes a CN-led military train heading westward through Chicago Heights, IL.
A warm humid early morning casts some odd light as a EJ&E junk freight bangs across UP's Villa Grove Sub. at the former EJ&E Jay Tower.
INRD coke trains come through the Chicago area about once every week but this is the first time I have seen one of there wonderfully painted SD40-2s leading the train....
ICE SD40 217 is now one of 13 units that have been sent to this location for scrapping. In the background is ICE SD46 363, and SD40 203. All the units pictured are gone, probably by the time this ... (more)
ICE SD45 363 during its final days resting peacefully among fellow SD40's.
ICE SD40 221 now resides at Jabco scrapping, where in 2 or 3 days time, it will no longer exist. As you caan well see, the scrapping is under way, and this historic SD40 will soon be gone forever.... (more)
One of the few EJ&E units left with the old J-ball logo on the nose leads a coal train bound for State Line power plant east across the UP diamonds and past the boarded up Jay Tower in Chicago Hei... (more)
EJ&E 650 passes a local at Chicago Heights.
A northbound Coal train is about to rumble over the EJ&E diamond at "J" Tower.
