Chicago’s Iconic Tunnels. CN train L536 crawls through Downtown Chicago with IC 1000, the “class unit” IC SD70 leading a CN SD75I and SD70M-2. They are seen here tip toeing under the ... (more)

After holding for three Metra’s at 16th Street, and for Amtrak 391 to head south… CN M337 with a duo of Illinois Central SD70’s, #1035 and #1032 get underway past 18th Street on home Illinoi... (more)

CN A407 heads north on a haze afternoon with two Illinois Central SD70s, 1005 & 1022, and a CN NA scheme SD40-2W. They are seen here splitting the ancient Illinois Central coaling towers that can ... (more)

A408's pair of IC's meet another pair of IC's on A407 in Tuscola. Sometimes it seems like the IC never left.

A pair of IC deathstars lead A408 past the IC-built Mattoon station. Now served by Amtrak, this station was built in 1918.

A pair of IC SD70s lead CN L536 South through Flossmoor.

IC 1022 leads four other units on the L515 as it exits the Mainline of Mid-America on its trip to Kirk Yard in Gary Indiana.

On a beautiful clear blue sky afternoon in the South Suburbs, CN L536 clips on south on the CN Chicago Subdivision with a trio of IC SD70’s. IC 1000, 1019 and 1004. Seen here heading through Oly... (more)

In August 1978, my father and I drove down to Beaverville, Illinois from Chicago to see the former N&W RS11s on the then recently formed Kankakee, Beaverville, and Southern. On our way there, we ... (more)

CN A407 passing through Farina with an IC SD70 in the lead.

Nothing says history like the old Illinois Central (now amtrak) station depot in downtown Kankakee. With this, two IC SD70s lead a wayfreight south towards Centralia on a crystal clear afternoon

A408 heading South through Paxton as snow flurries begin to fall.

A408 from Kirk Yard headed South down the IC mainline with a mixed bag of power.

IC SD70 1010 leads CN L515 South through Matteson.

Awaiting the call to their next assignment at Canadian National’s Woodcrest Locomotive Shop are Illinois Central SD70 1034 and CN ES44AC 2881. (Woodcrest used to be an IC facility before CN acq... (more)