Commuters wait for their train as one of the many express trains run on the BNSF lines zooms past.
An evening outbound dinky pulls into the replica pre-war railroad depot in Western Springs. The new station comes complete with a mock gate-tender shanty, an eccentric touch probably appreciated b... (more)
Three generations of railfans look on as the morning Amtrak rolls by.
Coal loads head east past the platforms of the Metra Depot at Western Springs on a warm sunny morning.
An eastbound BNSF train shatters the silence of a quiet Sunday morning in the western 'burbs of Chicago.
A pile driver is hard at work smoking up the neighborhood on BNSF's racetrack. The pile driver was driving in a retaining wall for an underground pedestrian walkway. The noise it made reverberated... (more)
Highball!
A wide cab SD40-2W, repainted IC SD40-2, and BN SD-9 roll westbound tonnage through suburban Chicago.
A pair of GP's complete this SD-9 sandwich with westbound tonnage out of Chicago.
One of BNSF's newer additions, this ACe leads an older 70MAC with westbound coal empties.
A trio of SD75M's lead a westbound coal train through Western Springs. Unfortunately the leader wasnt in warbonnet, but at least it was clean H2 and not H3!
A pair of shiny GEVO's lead a pair of old BN workhorses on a westbound Z train bound for South Seattle, WA.
