NS 8098, Norfolk Southern's Conrail heritage unit, pauses in Melrose Park, IL while building UP train MPRAH / NS train 18A after coming off the previous day's NS 257.

CPKC train I41, which usually has a pair of UP SD40N's, takes the Northwest Lead at CP 369 to get into Proviso.

A pair of UP SD40N's take YPRCP up the IHB main headed for the CP at Bensenville.

A thing of the past. A CNW Torpedo tube EMD GP7 rests at the railroads yard on a beautiful spring afternoon in April 1979 the CNW was at the time chop nosing. and rebuilding some of these unit's

G41 heads south down the IHB Mainline making it’s short trip from CP’s Bensenville Yard to UP’s Proviso Yard. The motive power for the mornings train is the usual pair of SD40N’s, UP 1756 ... (more)

CNW Alco C628 6729 rests at the servicing pit at Proviso Yard alongside other C628s on a fine spring day in 1975. These units were Bought from the Norfolk and western. They would spend most of the... (more)

CNW SD40-2 6927 in Zito Yellow.

One of only two built. This was GEs effort to enter the Class one railroad switcher market 2 units were built in 1979 and leased to the CNW for 2 years but they did not sell these to any of the ... (more)

A pair of IHB GPs wait outside Norpaul Yard, for clearance into CPs Bensenville Yard, with transfer NA11 in tow.

Chicago and Northwestern GP18 1776 at Proviso Yard January 1978. One of the longest lived Bicentennial paint schemes, the 1776 was painted into this scheme in August 1975 and finally painted back ... (more)

A rare Bird UP U 50 # 43 Rests in CNWs Proviso Yard In early 1974. A number of these units were in the CNW at the time as they were considering buying them. But the CNW bought the N&W C628s inste... (more)

A pair of CSX ES40DC's are on the point of a transfer freight in Melrose Park, Illinois getting ready to depart the Union Pacific Proviso Yard and head east for home rails.

It's a busy morning at Union Pacific's Proviso Yard in Chicago. EMD SD40N 1979 is pulling down a cut of mixed freight as it builds a train for departure.

A set of NS power gets ready to depart from UP's Proviso Yard after bringing a transfer in. On the point is one of NS's recently rebuilt SD70ACC's.

Nice to see some KCS power in Chicagoland for a change.