Metra 173 leads an outbound UP North train into downtown Evanston on a cold February afternoon.

CP SD70ACU 7011 thunders under the searchlights at Rondout with train 686 as snow falls to the ground.

CSXT 3122, a former L&N B23-7, leads four more GEs on a freight through Folkston, GA on December 11th, 1993. Original Slide. Steven T. Evans Photo. Sam Foster Collection.

UP 1478 meets a pulldown job at Butler Yard in Butler, WI.

BNSF Y-JOL202 slams the diamonds at Joliet Union Station with a pair of Santa Fe bluebonnets on point.

BNSF 1795, a former BN SD40-2, leads L-CHI105 across the Kankakee River in Lorenzo, IL.

CF&E 3316, the railroad’s SD40T-2, takes CHFW across the CN Matteson Sub at Ivanhoe in Gary. The diamond is still guarded by NYC type signals on the IHB and CSX trackage. This is also the locati... (more)

A group of railfans watch as SOO Line 2-8-2 #1003 blows off steam before entering the shop at the Wisconsin Automotive Museum. Photo taken with permission.

WC 2001, a former Algoma Central GP38-2, sits at Union Pacific’s Proviso Yard with a SD70M. Chicago’s Sears Tower is visible in the background.

HLCX 6305 switches cars at the west end of WSOR’s Janesville yard.

Iowa River Railroad’s only locomotives sit with a train just north of Steamboat Rock, IA.

While being swarmed by countless bugs, I took this shot of IC 6251 sitting with ore train on the west end of CN’s Proctor Yard near Duluth, MN. Northeast Minnesota is a haven for iron ore. Train... (more)

A classic Paducah GP10 leads an eastbound CC&P freight train through Bartlett, IL in February 1994. Original Slide. Mark Llanuza Photo. Sam Foster Collection.

Lake Superior & Ishpeming’s 7 Tilden Job splits off from the CN at Palmer Line Junction and heads towards the Tilden mine with two U30Cs.

IC 2457 meets a SB mixed freight at the Illinois/Wisconsin Stateline on CN’s Waukesha Subdivision.