EJ&E 674 and 675 lead the daily L509 job down the River Line in Plainfield.

An early running Blue Island - Council Bluffs road freight rolls past UD Tower in Joliet. This train ran early to relieve congestion at Burr Oak Yard in Blue Island.

Heavy snow and high winds limit the day's rail fanning, but DMIR 215, working the E Lead at Proctor was still bearing the elements

Back when the CN let the SD38-2's out on the road, fresh #212 leads taconite loads headed for the Duluth Docks. Not quite the same as Missabe maroon, but looks good fresh. DM&IR #211-212, 215 are ... (more)

As an EJ&E SD38-2 and a Grand Trunk GP38-2 wait to head into the yard, a pair of NS GE's head west out of the yard.

Although painted over, the nose light helps identify this former Reserve Mining locomotive. Now painted in a scheme reminiscent of the Minneapolis Northfield & Southern this iron ore veteran works... (more)

A hump set goes about the assigned duty, and begins to shove a massive cut over the crest at UP Neff Yard.

A pair of J SD38-2s switch out Seneca/Oxbow in Lemont. Five years after the CN took over the J, finding pure EJ&E consists has become a hard thing to do.

Cruising south down the 2nd Subdivision, A pair of IAIS units guide a long BUSW-19 freight for the TZPR through the Robert Rutherford Wildlife Sanctuary in the tiny village of Mossville, IL.

A pair of EJ&E SD38-2's lead a cut of cars up the hill out of KA Steel.

The Waterloo switch engines right now are the EJ&E 656, and the CN 5471. Here the 656 is parked on the sand track waiting for MofW to dig out the yard from a heavy morning snow storm on President'... (more)

NS CB60 rounds the wye in Hollidaysburg with the NS 5258 EMD GP38-2 and the NS 2423 MP15E

The "Oil Local" holds at Ohio Street in Joliet, waiting for a signal from UD Tower to head south. Southbound daylight runs of the L543 are uncommon, but crazy things happen when there's -20+ wind ... (more)

Twas ever thus!