BNSF 5056 leads a westbound Auto Train through Media Illinois 6/24/23

L-CHI663 gets underway out of Burlington with a pair of ATSF blue bonnets powering the train.

NIRC 11 works a tie replacement job at Rondout Illinois

WRIX 1229 sits outside the grain elevator in Bloomington Illinois while hazy wild fire skies settle in over the Midwest

For Railroad Daze at Franklin Park Illinois, one of Metra’s new SD70MACH locomotives powers the special from track 4 to 3 before reversing back to Western Ave Yard.

CPKC 253 heads west though Genoa Illinois with a pair of KCS GE units leading.

CN L537 runs down the Chicago Sub with a pair of IC SD70s leading

GTW 4907 and IC 3106 lead L508 over Byron Hill on the Waukesha Sub.

JTBX 814, ex DMIR SD-M, leads the Easter Train back to the Museum in North Judson.

CSXT 3194 leads UP train U-EXCDG through La Fox Illinois on its way to Iowa.

A trio of BJRY switcher units sit at Montgomery on a sunny afternoon.

A variety of locomotive sets wait outside the shops in Denver for servicing or assignment

BNSF 169 hauls a local out of the sheep yard in Montgomery during one of the last hours of light.

After working Suncast in Batavia, R-CHI452 returns to Eola with H-1 GP38-2, 2321, in the lead

CN 3115, the BC Rail Heritage Unit, passes through Aurora as it leads oil empties down the former EJ&E mainline