One of UP's GP40Xs hangs out in old Mopac (C&EI) territory south of Chicago.

EMD GP30 No. 4131 still looks like a Baltimore & Ohio locomotive, but the new CSX Transportation road number replacing B&O No. 6960 reveals a new life in a much bigger system. CSXT No. 4131 has ju... (more)

Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific locomotives are gathered at Yard Center at Dolton on December 3, 1988. MP was merged into UP on December 22, 1982, and initially it was to remain separate in nam... (more)

NS' bottle train comes into Dolton, where it'll take a right onto the old PRR Panhandle for the last mile to Arcelor Mittal's rolling mill in Riverdale.

A pair of Conrail SD50s power westbound CR ELIC, a freight from Elkhart Yard in Indiana to Illinois Central, just east of Dolton Junction, Illinois, on December 3, 1988. The train is meeting a sho... (more)

A trio of dirty Missouri Pacific EMD SD40-2s sit at the locomotive facility in Yard Center at Dolton, Illinois, on August 10, 1986.

Hot bottles
Conrail EMD GP38-2 No. 8155 powers a hot metal “bottle train” approaching the busy junction at Dolton, Illinois, on March 19, 1988. These trains shipped molten metal from... (more)

IHB GP38-2 3802 leads the 515 job into Yard Center.

IHB 4022 leads a transfer South into Yard Center.

Ohio Central SD40-2 4023 leads CF&E FWCH WEst through Dolton.

An eastbound CSX freight rolls through busy Dolton Junction at Dolton, Illinois, on March 19, 1988. The train is powered by a Baltimore & Ohio EMD GP40-2 that has recently renumbered into the CSX ... (more)

A pair of Conrail EMD SD50s power a westbound CR freight through the interlocking at Dolton, Illinois, on January 9, 1988.

A pair of BNSF motors pull an auto rack train east through Dolton, Illinois.

Heading east out of CSX Transportation’s Barr Yard is an ethanol train powered by Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 9657 and Norfolk Southern Dash 9-40CW 9727. (Dolton, Illinois – November 7, 2018)

A light NS unit heads towards the IHB main as a CSX manifest pounds the Dolton diamond in the background.