EMDX Demonstrator 90 sits at EMD's LaGrange Plant.

On one of the nicest Easter Sundays in the Chicago area in decades, a UP SD70ACe-T4 sits at the EMD LaGrange facility.

Three generations of EMD: in the foreground, a brand-new (yet quite ratty-looking) SD70ACe-T4. In the middle, an SD70ACe in demonstrator paint. And in the background, an SD90MAC. Although there is... (more)

ATSF 5831 brings a stack train thru McCook, IL on a foggy day in November of 1986.

A UP Tier 4 ACe and a NS SD70ACC sit at EMD's LaGrange plant.

Y WSP931, an extra run to BRC's Clearing Yard, is exiting the BNSF Chillicothe Sub and entering IHB rails at McCook. A pair of Santa Fe Bluebonnets provide the power as the train crosses the Des P... (more)

Santa Fe caboose 999816 trails a piggyback train disappearing into the fog in McCook, IL in November of 1986.

Some days you wonder why you were crazy enough to go out looking for trains to photograph. This was one of those days as an extremely heavy fog shrouds IHB 9214 as it passes thru McCook, IL in Nov... (more)

IHB 8738 and 2 mates slowly hammer the Santa Fe diamond in McCook, IL with a transfer freight in August of 1988. 8738 was sold to Larry's Truck Electric in 2003.

Squeaky clean CP SD40-2 787 in the dual flag scheme leads a freight on joint IHB/B&OCT trackage at McCook, IL about to cross into LaGrange IL in June 1998.

ATSF 4003 brings an inspection train thru McCook, IL in August of 1988.

After Amtrak took over passenger operations many of Santa Fe's passenger power was downgraded to freight service as a trio of these units attests passing westbound through Mc Cook.

ATSF caboose #999533 trails a piggyback train thru McCook, IL in March of 1986.

Rare Bird! ATSF 7401, on of 3 GE B39-8 Demonstrator units, is westbound at McCook, IL in October of 1986.

ATSF 2015 switches the yard in McCook, IL in October of 1986.