BNSF 8334 leads CHIGAL West through Coal City.

BNSF Smurf 2042 leads CHIGAL West through Lemont.

Summer temperatures spread out across Chicagoland, as BNSF’s last active “smurf” locomotive rumbles over the Des Plaines river in Lemont. Recently reactivated after BNSF ridded their rails o... (more)

Former BN SD40-2 1706 leads CHIGAL West through Romeoville.

A trio of former Santa Fe locomotives, led by GP50 #3167, leads BNSF train M-CHIGAL through Lemont, IL, headed back to Galesburg.

BNSF GP40M 3004 works a industry near Northtown Yard.

BNSF SD70ACe 9036 leads CHIGAL West through Cameron.

BNSF SD60M 1404 shoves CHIGAL out of GM Yard in Hodgkins.

On a windy sunny evening, a newly reactivated B40-8W leads an ABBA consist of 2 GP60Ms, and an SD40. Heres said consist flying around the Romeoville curve, bound for Galesburg.

A former BN SD40-2 leads CHIGAL west through Romeoville.

An original painted BN GP30 leads the M-CHIGAL across the Des Plaines River on the BNSF Chilli Sub.

While most Chicago railfans were enjoying Showcase Weekend at the Illinois Railway Museum, me and a few friends ventured down to Lemont, Illinois to catch BNSF local train M-CHIGAL. When we heard ... (more)

BNSF SD60M 1431 reverses CHIGAL out of GM yard.

1 of 5 GP50L’s ever built, BNSF 3162, is seen here leading M-CHIGAL West along the Santa Fe past a big puddle of water that was conveniently collected along the tracks just outside of town. Thes... (more)

About an hour after departing GM Yard, M-CHIGAL flys over the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in Lemont, IL with BNSF 1614 in the lead.