DL 3642 prepares to leave Steamtown with a local train on July 4th.

This 4-4-0 is preserved in the Smithonian's Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

A Warbonnet lets out a puff of smoke as it leads a westbound intermodal train through Downers Grove.

The Argonne Switcher has just gotten going again, and has an unusually long train today, which is composed of all boxcars save one lone hopper. This GP35u is a new but welcome site to the branch, ... (more)

A BNSF intermodal crosses over the Mazon river in Gorman, passing an extremely bright, almost unfathomably clean white house. Gorman is little more than this, another house or two around the river... (more)

With less than month left for most of the Monon semaphores, it came time to make my pilgrimage to Romney and pay tribute to end of an era, and watch these ancient beasts move their arms.

After a storm dropped 3-6 inches of snow and ice (depending on where you were) on the Chicagoland area last night, the Argonne switcher heads up the branch with a solid train of boxcars bound for ... (more)

The westbound California Zephyr pulls into Princeton. After spending all day chasing the triple-header, this almost seemed mundane!

Is it sacrilege to take a diesel picture on a steam excursion? I don't know, but I wasn't about to pass up a near perfect looking Soo Line GP38-2 in candy apple red. Taken from the vestibule of on... (more)

Mmmmm...rural branchline railroading at its finest. The only thing that could make it better is if that leaser weren't in the middle. Taken from a grade crossing while train was paused to unload g... (more)

CN 6789 rounds the curve at Monticello Railway Museum's Railroad Days, whilst it is framed by a branch.

A fairly clean Dash-9 slows down for a hi-rail car up ahead as it passes the Astec Asphalt Plant.

The snow has temporarily abated, and BNSF 4088 is crossing Sawmill Creek eastbound as it slows down to a stop in order to await entrance to Willow Springs Yard.

An on-time Southwest Chief (which I confused with the late California Zephyr) kicks up snow as it flies through LaGrange doing every bit of its track speed, and leaving me with some extra wind chi... (more)

A pair of standard cab SD60s lead a westbound manifest through the town of Tuscola and the interesting triple intersection of the UP, CSX, and CN/IC.