It's afternoon rush hour on the BN race track. I have just gotten off a 19 minute ride from Chicago Union Station to La Grange Rd. On this spring-like Febraury day I had my camera and decided to c... (more)

UP 7611 (ES44AC) leads a northbound manifest through La Grange, IL.

METX 187 (F40PHM-3) blazes through the La Grange Road Metra station with an outbound BNSF express train.

METX 185 rolls into La Grange, IL with an outbound commuter train on the BNSF Racetrack.

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IHB 3800 and 3801 are tied down in La Grange waiting for a new crew to take the train on south to the yard in Summit.

On a very snowy Veterans Day (it's still just Autumn!), a pair of Metra commuter trains meet each other right on time as a passenger, who got off the westbound train (METX 1229, on the right), wai... (more)

IHB 9208-9202, SW1500, La Grange, Illinois. June 7, 1981. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Its rush hour at La Grange, IL and BN 9920 is pouring on the coals as the train rushes through the station without making a stop. BN commuter service was provided between Chicago & Aurora, IL. Ser... (more)

IHB's Ago 910 job is seen returning to Argo shortly after picking up a cut of cars at the small yard in La Grange.

A pair of IHB GP40-2s are seen ducking under the BNSF at La Grange with train GA6 running from Norpaul to Blue Island.

This C&O Alco S2 # 9168 was Kept at The EMD plant In La Grange for one reason it was the one thing they has at the time that they knew Exactly what its weight was. so it was used as a scale test ... (more)

It’s just after 3:45am as C-CXCNAM heads west past the old CB&Q depot at Stone Avenue with a former Burlington Northern SD70MAC, 9687 leading solo with an empty coal train.

EMDX 7215 at the former EMD plant in La Grange.

Belt Railway of Chicago Alco C424 Nos. 603 and 604 cross over to Track 1 on the Indiana Harbor Belt main approaching the Burlington Northern overpass at La Grange, Illinois, on February 7, 1987. N... (more)