Passing the 1907-built Tower A-2, the Milwaukee Road heritage unit makes its way to Fox Lake.

Holding on Rockwell 2, W226-21 waits for the signal at Kedzie with a former Clinchfield SD40-2 leading the charge.

A CTA Green Line train heads west out of the city, bound for Harlem/Lake.

UP GP40-2 1430 and CNW bay-window caboose 11119 wait for the next call to duty at the North Avenue Yard in Chicago. The CNW caboose, which is used for shoving moves, is right at home on former Nor... (more)

The Capitol Limited passes through Chicago's Armour Square neighborhood on its way to Washington DC.

Metra 422, recently repainted with a black roof, leads a MDW doubleheader west past CP Morgan.

Metra F59PHI 90 leads the daily MDN doubleheader west past CP Morgan.

The NS local heads south through the Amtrak yard after switching Continental paper in Chicago.

With the Veterans NPCU pointing the way, Amtrak Hiawatha train #334 breezes by the tower at A-5, continuing the last leg of its journey from Milwaukee to Chicago. Tower A-5 was closed in November ... (more)

But we still call it the Sears Tower. Named for the Village of Itasca, Illinois, METX 183 (F40PH-2) leads train 1247 on the afternoon of February 18, 2020. The tall looming structure decorating th... (more)

A former Missouri Pacific GP15-1, now working for the Union Pacific, works the Blommer Chocolate Factory in downtown Chicago.

A sunny afternoon finds the BRC industry job working Charter Steel with MP15AC #151 in charge. Lately, this job has been a goldmine when it comes to having MP15's for power. The train also arrived... (more)

NKP 765 with the Joliet Rocket arrives LaSalle Street Station in Chicago, IL.

Little Geeps in the big city. A couple baby tunnel motors build trainsets at the old CNW California Avenue Coach Yard.

A mural under the Metra E111/Pullman Station on the former Illinois Central electric line protrays scenes for the industrial past of the neighborhood near the Pullman National Monument, National P... (more)