Lots of action in the late morning.

Two ghosts purchased from Kansas City Southern sit by, hastily relettered for CP Rail. 670 was repainted and numbered 5415, and sources say it's still kicking around, based in Calgary; 672 was re... (more)

Conrail 6501 attacks Horseshoe Curve.

Belt Railway's bicentennial unit, 16 years after the bicentennial, is paired up with sibling 533, idling here at the top of Clearing Yard's hump.

A quartet of ATSF SD40-2s, with another pair visible at the tail end, work a K-Line container train up Cajon Pass.

Indiana Southern, pre-lettering, stops over in CSX's Barr Yard with some locos in early CSX (and late Chessie) lettering.

Three Katy GP40s switch Taylor, north of the junction with Missouri Pacific, in the evening.

Two days after my sixteenth birthday ... where does one drive with dad and a few friends? Why, a couple hundred miles north to where the ATSF has a three-way junction. At the junction, a typical... (more)

NICTD train #9 departs downtown Chicago at lunchtime, on time, while train #116 waits for a clear shot into the station. They are passing below the bridge between the Chicago Museum of Art's diff... (more)

Late morning is often a busy time on the south side of the Canal Street Wye. With Metra traffic quieting down until the afternoon rush, BNSF coal such as this one and UP trains originating/termin... (more)

Not sure what's going on, but this guy's getting the workover. Hopefully they're repairing it, but with the P32s handling all the switching in Chicago these days, I fear 790 (and sister 799)'s da... (more)

Four simultaneous Amtrak Movements. On the far left, an inbound Illinois Zephyr. On the left, an inbound Michigan service train approaches CUS, in the front/center, 3 light locomotives awaiting ... (more)

An assortment of CSX locos sit around Barr Yard, while a UP/UP/NS trio rolls light into the yard to take a train off to the C&EI.

Heading in to Chicago ... only a few miles to go.