A UP manifest glides through a curve in Wheaton on its way west.

The daily ICE train to Nahant, Iowa, rolls west on its journey over the Milwaukee West Metra line.

A short Amtrak train bound for Michigan departs Chicago on a gorgeous afternoon.

A very nice set of Amtrak power, including an F59PHI, sits at Amtrak's Chicago engine facility.

A pair of NS GE's race eastbound with a stack train.

One of BNSF's new logo GEVo's leads another stack train out of Cicero.

A UP SD60 leads a short NS train west on its way to Chicago as a couple fellow railfans look on.

One of maybe 10 NS Dash-9s in this special scheme leads a westbound freight towards Chicago.

An ex-Conrail Dash-8 leads an early morning eastbound freight through Porter.

An ex-Conrail leads another eastbound manifest on the NS.

A nice CP lashup leads the 501 train onto the NS at Porter, IN.

A nice clean CN Dash-9 leads a southbound on the IHB.

The Southwest Chief is 10 miles into its cross country trip as it sprints through Riverside.

In what might be called a rare meet, the two ICE trains that depart Clearing yard pass eachother as one departs while its counterpart waits to get in.

A crew has decorated this GP-9 for this year's Halloween. Pretty cool!