Santa Fe’s 881 train storms through Wilbern, Illinois, led by freshly-rebuilt EMD SDP40F No. 5261 on May 18, 1985.
Metra 206 leads an outbound train out of Lisle towards Aurora.
Milwaukee District North train 2621 arrives at Round Lake as the shadows grow long.
Q642-04 (Avon, IN - Chicago, IL Barr Yard) slowly rolls north through Dolton on the UP Villa Grove Subdivision, with a pair of 1979, ex-Seaboard Coast Line SD40-2 products. With 144 cars and just ... (more)
After a derailment in Bensenville Yard a couple nights earlier, Union Pacific had to call off their daily YPRCP for a couple days. After a couple days of waiting, a combined YPRCP crawls under the... (more)
At the north end of Block Siding, 1 of 3 remaining SP-painted GP60s is on the point of UP's LSB54 local. This job runs north twice a week, usually Tuesday and Friday. After going on duty at 5 AM, ... (more)
The power for CP transfer job G41 (CP Bensenville to UP Proviso) sits after a manned Canadian Pacific switching job crashed into them. Once crews removed the cars that piled onto the 1885, the dam... (more)
Santa Fe "Bicentennial" SD45-2 5700 at Corwith Yard in Chicago September 1975. The 5700 was built in May 1973 and painted in the Bicentennial scheme in February 1975. The 5700 was one of... (more)
Oneida and Western SD40-2 9951 at the EMD La Grange Plant in McCook IL October 1979. The Oneida and Western was not an actual railroad with it's own tracks but rather a way for Shamrock Coal Co to... (more)
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. These ... (more)
METX 179 leads an evening rush train
After an incident with a RC move, CP G41 sits in Bensenville yard with 7 derailed cars, a totaled UP SD40, and many dozers cleaning up the mess...
UP 1111 leads a short passenger special west, splitting the CNW signals in Cortland.
UP 1111 Heads south.
Metra 99 takes NCS train 109 north across the CP Fox Lake Subdivision diamond at Prairie Crossing in Libertyville, IL.
