Hesston Steam Museum's Shay type locomotive makes one last run for the season before being put away for the winter.

NS 66Z heads east on trackage rights through Gary Indiana with a faded old Santa Fe unit on point

Freshly rebuilt MP36PH-3C #401 leads a private passenger special past Rondout Tower towards Fox Lake Illinois

In the day and age where SD40-2's are being retired at a good rate, and with fewer and fewer bluebonnet's being left over, seeing one lead a train in 2011 reminds of better days.

5 sets of Metra equipment layover the weekend awaiting the Monday morning rush hour on a beautiful summer evening

Norfolk Southern's Geometry Tech train sits in a siding at Burns Harbor Yard where it will be used to test track conditions on a later date.

Metra MP36PH-3C #425, painted and lettered for retired CEO Don Orseno makes a station stop at Oak Forest Illinois

NS Veterans Engine #6920 holds at Hobart West for instructions from the NS Chicago Dispatcher

The last remaining CNW C44-9W's on UP's roster hold for Markham Yard on the ex-IC Mainline in Harvey Illinois

IHB 2921 pulls out a cut of autorack cars for Gibson Yard

A pair of UPY GP15-1's prepare to head out back to the UP Villa Grove Subdivision in Chicago Heights with a train for Yard Center

The only GTW painted SD40-2 and a repainted EJ&E SD38-2 hold down on Main 1 of the CN Joliet Subdivision for Amtrak to crossover ahead of it in Lemont.

Headed into the last rays of sunlight of the day, SOO 6034 and 2 leased SD40-2's lead an autotrain west

ATSF 92 and CB&Q 9911A get ready for a day full of excursions at Illinois Railway Museum

NS 35J heads west through Chesterton past the old depot in the gorgeous evening light with a hi-hood GP50 and C40-8 for power.