An IHB SW1500 and road slug PB1 lug a hefty bunch of loaded coal cars out of the LaGrange Yard. Even in run 8 they were barely making 10mph.
A train on the UP makes adds a bit of color to the otherwise bland landscape as it cruises south through Dolton.
A very clean CN SD75I leads the daily train to Kansas City west as it accelerates on its trip west.
A trio of CN C44-9Ws leads today's Q118 south from Schiller Park toward Homewood.
A BNSF coal train led by two 70's in the executive scheme hustle a train west past the CB&Q searchlights which will soon join their namesake railroad in history.
A fairly new addition to the BNSF roster leads a stack train as it begins its journey to the west coast.
With a Z train pursuing it, a coal train races west on another run towards Wyoming.
As the sun gets lower, another BNSF Z train snakes out of Clyde Yard to begin its sprint west.
An ex-BN, now BNSF GP10 gathers speed as its train accelerates out onto the mainline.
One of several Alaska GP49s sits outside the NRE shops.
A GP10 and GP30 on a manifest in 2005? Wow!
Z-Chicago-Laurel departs and illuminates everything in its path on this beautiful night.
A CSS&SB commuter flies toward Chicago after accelerating to 79mph out of Ogden Dunes.
A light power move heads west with a C40-9W, SD70, and two C39-8s, one in Conrail and one in NS paint. Too bad they werent leading!
A pair of NS GE's, lead by a Conrail repaint, skims along the lakeshore and past the dune bluffs on its way West toward Chicago.