EJ&E 446 gets ready to depart the yard with the Smurfit Stone job

EJ&E 703 heads back to the yard, with 12 empties

EJ&E 703 starts off on the south end

Birds of a feather, the last two remaining J-Balls in service

The EJ&E 446 crew working it's way into the evening

Easter Egg Dye Recipe: Combine 1/2 cup boiling water with 1 tsp vinegar add food coloring in a bowl. Start with 2 drops red and 5 drops yellow........

The EJ&E 671 on the north end of the yard as the sun starts to rise

The IAIS 502 & 156 depart the EJ&E Joliet Yard after picking up 15 EJ&E covered coil cars, on each side you can see all the track changes that CN is making to the yard

As the sun sets on AMTK 33 the engineer prepares to leave the station waiting for the signal

The ATSF 999784 Caboose crosses the diamond as it passes UD Tower at Union Station, if you look close at the lower window, you can see the paper work is being completed.

IC 1497 & EJ&E 446, get ready to make up their first train of the day

The IC 1000 brings in an empty Taconite train into Joliet. Today's forecast, "A BLIZZARD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM CST THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING"

GTW 4901 long hood forward, rounds the curve and heads toward it's first stop, Smurfit-Stone, and then to the Matteson Yard

Almost a year to the day in this spot I shot the last EJ&E State line coal train with all J power, before they became a fallen flag on February 1st 2009, not knowing if you would ever see another ... (more)

EJ&E 658 leads the State Line Coal Train out of Joliet, followed by EJ&E 672, and UP 6773, (two out of three ain't bad) something that is no longer a common site, since the CN Acquisition