Traffic jam! The train sat blocking Cortland Street for several minutes while a switch was thrown, and once the train retreated, the vehicular floodgates were opened.

Gah! Where's the fans?! :)

After the 261 pulled onto the siding (with just her main tender), the P42s pulled the train up so that everyone could get off. The auxiliary tender was left on the point, making for an interesting... (more)

Business cars on the end of an intermodal train. They came into Chicago yesterday behind BNSF 1000 and 5064.

The children of Bureau are out in force as this is the most exciting thing to happen to Bureau in, well, a year.

4 SD40-2s highball east near sunset, putting out a good deal of smoke.

239 passes by the 3 P42s that were power for the AOE which was sitting in Williams while the passengers rode the Grand Canyon Railway. The F40 provided HEP while the P42s were serviced. The bridge... (more)

I made sure my 100th photo was something special; so here's a three-way Metra meet with two MP36s.

The 261 pulled onto a siding so everyone could see it. The P42s pulled us forward and I got a few shots out the window. The camera crew there is from the Chicago-area TV show, 190 North.

The "silver streak" splits town in two for a moment during the weekly Friday Night Car Show.

A friendly wave from the helper engineer on a loaded coal train downhill.

A coal train emerges from the snow led by two 70MACs. A group of girls waits for the next inbound Metra train.

Are the spectators watching the game, or the train? Probably the game, but some may have noticed a locomotive at the end of the train, as this was a special test train with a DPU on the rear.

An Amtrak Dash 8 escapes yard duty to pull the Illinois Zephyr for awhile. It was only leading the trainset for 2 trips, but had been trailing a P42 for a week. I still remember when PepsiCan Dash... (more)

Sydney's light rail line runs down the street through the city, here stopping at Paddy's Markets, while the Monorail stops at its station too to the right.