CSXT 1973, an ES44AH newly painted in a Chessie heritage scheme, leads M648 through Beecher, IL on the joint UP/CSX Villa Grove Subdivision, nearing the end of its journey to the BRC in Chicago.

For the first time ever, the Illinois Railway Museum's resident GG1 poses next to Spaulding Tower as museum volunteers re-enact hooping up orders during the museum's "Shay it Forward" ev... (more)

NS 1068, the Erie heritage unit, pauses at the River Forest, IL Metra platform with intermodal transfer IG1G2R, while an outbound scoot rushes in.

KCS 4795 (ES44AC) leads another KCS GE on westbound/southbound CPKC intermodal 180 through Hampshire, IL

UP 6379, one of the few remaining AC4400CWs still in Southern Pacific garb, leads loaded CPKC sand train 640, seen here running through Glenview, IL due to the dispatcher's decision to run the tra... (more)

KCSM 4654 (ES44AC) leads southbound CPKC manifest 248 past the Metra station in Lake Forest, IL.

CP 8861 (ES44AC) leads another CP GE on CPKC intermodal train 180 through the small town of Kirkland, IL, only about 1.5 hours into its 3 day trip to Mexico.

A pair of sister Gevos, UP 8172 and 8175, lead a northbound intermodal around the curve off of CSX into Blue Island Junction. The symbol is unknown, though it is possible this is I191 for the U... (more)

IC repaint 1039 leads sister Death Star unit 1033, lead a local westbound through Griffith, IN.

CP 8130 (AC4400CWM) leads CPKC 253 (Manifest - Bensenville, IL to Davenport, IA) through Hampshire, IL into the late afternoon sunlight.

A pair of KCS locomotives lead CPKC intermodal train 181 past the grain elevator in New Lebanon, IL as it thunders eastbound towards its terminus - Bensenville, IL.

A solo KCSM SD70ACe heads up CPKC 254, a freight originating on the RCPE in Minnesota, seen here passing through Des Plaines, IL, just a few miles from its terminus at Bensenville.

CP heritage unit #7018 leads loaded sand train 646 through Des Plaines, IL, headed for CSX interchange.

N&W 475, a 4-8-0 "Mastodon" type steam locomotive, leads a Strasburg Railroad train past the Red Caboose Motel and Casey Jones Restaurant on its way back to the Strasburg station after t... (more)

N&W 611, the last remaining Class J Norfolk & Western 4-8-4, leads one of the hourly Strasburg Railroad trains back to Strasburg, seen here accelerating past the Cherry Crest Adventure Farm after ... (more)