After a 14 hour drive from Chicago we made it into Cheyenne 30 minutes before sunset which was perfect timing to catch UP 1988 East leading MRVNPP.

A former CNW high hood SD18 now works the DeBruce Grain elevator at Cozad, NE.

The north local out of Bloomington heads north with 1 car for Dow Chemical.

The LPS15 local from Janesville is seen servicing Shannon Industrial Corp on the east side of Woodstock. The LPS15 local is a Mon-Fri train running to Crystal Lake on Mon, Wed & Fri and South Belo... (more)

UP 1337 leads the LPS15 local across the 387ft Stone Arch bridge spanning the Turtle Creek at Tiffany, WI. I decided to try something different by going wide on the Smith Road truss bridge. The LP... (more)

Looking west into Clearing Yard from the Cicero Ave overpass.

A northbound Metra Electric races towards the city as "the recycle job" heads south through the Oakland neighborhood on the near south side.

Eastbound M338 departs Hawthorne with a repainted IC SD70 in charge.

The Sterling local returns from Rochelle on a stormy summer evening in Northwestern Illinois. While this was incredibly awesome, I had no time to setup and made a dumb mistake with the camera sett... (more)

Westbound Blue Island to Silvis road freight passes the old Rock Island depot at Morris on a hazy summer morning.

On the longest day of the year it would be most appropriate to go out at night since the Millsdale local had a pair of EJ&E SD38's.

Eastbound North Platte - Proviso manifest knocks down the search lights at Cortland.

The tri-weekly manifest to Janesville is seen under the cover of darkness knocking down a pair of search lights on the Harvard Sub.

Empty grain train for South Beloit takes the connection at Norma where they will get onto the Harvard Sub. The SD40N leader was added at Proviso for the ATS requirement on the Harvard Sub.

C&O for Progress I guess... Q636 heads for Walbridge as it knocks down the EE Pemberville where the signal crews are actively working on removing the C&O history.