CN’s Memphis to Chicago manifest rockets north into the morning sun with a quad of EMDs, the first two being IC SD70s.

A pair of IC SD70s shoot south at sunrise, skirting along US-45 outside Pesotum.

Three warbonnets and a Conrail unit are back up to track speed with a vengeance after departing Galesburg this 4th of July. Fuji Velvia.

IHB 4011 and 4013 (GP40-2s) arrive at the east end of Bensenville Yard with an inbound local.

IHB 3801 and 3800 (GP40-2s) rumble past the IL-IN state line in Calumet City, IL with an eastbound manifest.

CN 3115, Canadian National's "BC Rail" heritage unit, rolls past the former EJ&E depot in Lake Zurich, IL, leading A447 for Green Bay, WI.

Having received a fresh crew, CFE 4034 and 4035 smoke it up as they accelerate from a stop at the IL-IN state border in Calumet City, IL, ready to continue eastbound with CHFW.

NS 5809 (GP38-2) trundles westbound past the IL-IN state border and into Calumet City, IL with the bottle train, while CFE 4034 idles away with CHFW, awaiting a new crew.

BNSF 7412 leads a manifest West down the hill at Hollywood as Amtrak's Illinois Zephyr plays catch up.

Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern's FWCH train arrives in Dolton, IL behind C40-8Ws 4035 and 4034, moments away from arriving at its terminus in IHB's Blue Island Yard.

NS 5337 (GP38-2) leads a westbound bottle train through Dolton, IL - as seen from the air.

NS 5337 (GP38-2) trundles through Dolton, IL with a westbound bottle train, as seen from the ground.

NS 8114, Norfolk Southern's "Original NS" heritage unit, pays a visit to Metra's Elgin Subdivision (former Milwaukee Road route), seen here arriving in Franklin Park from the BRC with CP... (more)

Rock Island E8's 652 and 655 leads the daily inter-city Quad Cities Rocket at Blue Island, Illinois on May 12, 1973. The railroad initially declined to hand passenger operations over to Amtra... (more)

UP 1983, Union Pacific's Western Pacific heritage unit, hustles across the Kankakee River bridge on BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision with ZCIG4, nearing its terminus of Global 4 in Joliet, IL.