Metra F40PH-3 #103 leads an outbound train, Metra F40PH-3 #106 shoves an inbound train, and an Amtrak Hiawatha is seen in the distance during the busy afternoon rush hour in Chicago at CP Morgan, ... (more)

On a very unusually warm day, Metra F40C #614 hits the throttle out of Chicago with a load of commuters weary and tired from their day at work.

NS AC44C6M #4001 leads a transfer freight towards Proviso in Melrose Park

Norfolk Southern's New York Central heritage unit holds for the Cummings Drawbridge dispatcher on the ex-NKP in Chicago underneath the NICTD overhead bridge

Taking the connector from the ex-GTW to the ex-EJ&E, M395 heads for Joliet Yard

The South Side Local prepares to enter Bensenville Yard limits on a nice sunny evening

N&W 611 leads NS 8099 and SOU 6199 on NS 957, the first excursion of the year through a place commonly known as Rudd in Browns Summit North Carolina

BNSF 9322 leads 31K west to CP 502 where it will head south on the IHB mainline to the NS Kankakee Line and then towards Streator and the BNSF Chilicothe Subdivision

UP 844 along with Missouri Pacific heritage unit #1982 lead a short consist east through West Memphis Arkansas.

Chicago Terminal and Polar Express equipment layover in Elk Grove Village for servicing before being put on other assignments

CNW 1689 takes a rest at IRM during showcase weekend

Amtrak #145 races through Lockport, kicking up the dust on its way for a station stop at Joliet Union Station

Hesston Steam Museum's Shay type locomotive heads out of the forest and towards the station depot.

CNW F7A #411 leads a commuter train west past the semaphores at the Illinois Railway Museum

CP GP38AC 3013 idles away with a track geometry train in Bensenville Yard and a Milwaukee Road Bandit GP38-2 takes the day off