My favorite form of the GP35, medium tank, dynamic brakes, Alco trucks. This one started out as GM&O then the ICC destroyed competitive rail transportation in the lower Mississippi valley. Photo... (more)

Photo by Tony Vanier, from my collection.

A TP&W westbound transfer sports the NYC-inspired "lightning stripe" paint scheme preferred by the first TP&W ownership following the 1989 sale by the Santa Fe.

IC 1007 at Joliet Yard.

IC 1021 leading E271 South past the elevator complex in downtown Thomasboro, Illinois. At this elevator lives FFGC 903. FFGC 903 is a SW900 that was built for the Rock Island in 1959.

Village of Glen Ellyn. Metra F40PH-3 no. 143 shuffles around the Ogilvie Transportation Center, returning to the locomotive storage tracks.

IC 1022 bringing E271 down the Mainline of Mid-America. The scene here in Danforth, Illinois, is covered with old artifacts to make this frame look very similar to what it was back in the IC days.

Sitting in the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard is one of their TR4 "cow/calf" switcher sets, BRC TR4A 505 and TR4B 513. These were built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in Septe... (more)

At the time of this photo, it is in the early days of RailAmerica ownership of the TP&W, however, this train shows the colors of the previous two post-Santa Fe owners of the line. The lead unit i... (more)

Grand Trunk 8380 keeps company with Graysonia, Nashville & Ashdown 26 (left) and Lake Superior & Ishpeming 35 (right) at the Illinois Railway Museum.

On the return trip to Canada during the "Final Spike Steam Tour" CPR 2816 had a chance to visit the former Rock Island shops in Silvis, Illinois, that are now home to Railroading Heritag... (more)

The conductor watches the shove as KCSM 4572 rolls back to the service tracks at Bensenville Yard shortly after detaching from their train.

CSXT 532 in the Bright Future livery leads an eastbound train through Dolton on a beautiful fall day.

EJE 663 sits pretty in the sun and looks right at home in the former EJ&E Yard in Joliet Illinois.

CNs A407 train hustles north past the century old IC passenger station in Mattoon. Fog looms around central illinois on this cold wintery morning, an eerie compliment to the IC SD70 pair.