IC 101 cruises past a vintage grain elevator in rural Illinois in route to Gibson City.

GM76 lays over in IHB's Riverdale Yd. supposedly headed to EMD McCook for testing.

The amount of graffiti on the tank after being here for less then 24 hours should explain the nieghborhood I had to bike through to get this shot. The rarely used I&N side of the CIRY is in use th... (more)

A lone J SD38-2 rounds up a couple dozen empty coke cars along the steel mills of East Chicago and high balls back to Kirk in the late afternoon light.

Notice the wreck damage on the conductor side of the engine.

Nekoosa Paper 14 sits idle after the engineer totally ran her out of batteries.

Amtrak power lays over in Chicago on a cold, blustery, blizzardy, winters eve.

The daily Kirk to Joliet manifest thunders through "The Heights" with a pair of the orange monsters struggling to keep this mile+ manifest up to speed. Once in Joliet, if time allows, they will bl... (more)

2-8-2 4960 prepares for it's first trip North toward the Grand Canyon.

After picking up rare bird IHB 2272 in Michigan Ave. Yard, IHB's Whiting Job strolls across the CSXT at Cal Tower.

CP 2816 heads west toward Franklin Park on its last day of excursions.

The exclamation point on this years Christmas train was a vintage Ann Arbor cupola complete with ancient, operating, marker lamps.

Amtrak 333 and Metra 2109 prepare to depart after an evening snow storm.

NREX 8865 pulls into the fuel racks in Cicero leading the normal BNSF stuff and three shiny new additons, a GP38-2 and a pair of Gevo's: 6130 and 6131.

P32 500 pauses along the Chicago River before dragging his string of reefers into CUS for loading. The famous airline also acts as a background filler.