An NS run through highballs west into LaGrange on what turned out to be a nice day after a week of cloudy goodness.

BNSF new logoed ES44DC #7756 leads Z-CHCPTL under the new signal bridge in LaGrange.

7754 blows by the LaGrange Road Metra/Amtrak station, with an extra-long grain train.

Another eastbound stack train cruises under another soon to be demolished CB&Q signal bridge.

UP 5000 ducks under the BNSF Chicago Sub and Ogden Ave. with it's mile long autorack train.

A decent CN lash-up gets blocked out by northbound IHB 4013 with a manifest in transit to the UP.

A trio of CN locomotives head south through LaGrange with a lengthy Q118 train to Markham yard in tow.

A pair of CN's finest oppose eachother just south of the BNSF overpass in LaGrange.

One of IHB's rebuilt SW's leads a slug as they work hard to drag a cut of 5-bay coal cars south toward McCook.

Amtrak let 518 take charge of the Illinois Zephyr today, giving a "change of scenery" on this train.

M-NSIGAL has a neat leader today. UP SD70M 4951 has the honors of leading an NS HH GP38. The Q signals stand gaurding the mainline, but for how long, we do not know as there are new concrete block... (more)

A CN SD75 leads a GTW SD40, #5912, south through LaGrange on a beautiful morning.

An IHB SW1500 and road slug PB1 lug a hefty bunch of loaded coal cars out of the LaGrange Yard. Even in run 8 they were barely making 10mph.

A BNSF coal train led by two 70's in the executive scheme hustle a train west past the CB&Q searchlights which will soon join their namesake railroad in history.