A standard cab Dash 8 leads M343 through Crest Hill.

CN Dash 9 2531 leads an IC SD70, an IC SD40-3, a sister Dash 9 and a CN SD75I through Turner.

M343 picks up speed, northbound through Crest Hill.

M343 heads north through Crest Hill with a CN SD75I and a fresh looking C40-8W.

Crossing Path's- GE's cross path's at the crossroads of Canada- Duplainville WI. Westbound Amtrak 7, on CP's Watertown Sub clatters across in front of a northbound CN manifest on their Waukesha S... (more)

BCOL 4609 and IC 2456 (Blue Icon unit) thunder north through Crest Hill with nearly two miles of mixed freight, after clearing Bridge 198 in Joliet. M343 originates in Memphis, TN and runs to Winn... (more)

With no work at the Joliet Yard, it's straight north for this M343 as it passes "Ruff."

After performing a rollby of the southbound in the distance, the conductor climbs back aboard his standard cab C40-8 at Turner.

M343 closes in on the Joliet Yard, headed west. This portion of the former EJ&E Eastern Sub is now double track again, after 30 years of being a single track main.

When the CN originally took over the EJ&E in 2009, the M343 would use the J everyday. As time progressed, it was rerouted through the congested city of Chicago, but as of recently, it's back runni... (more)

CN 2437, a C40-8M, leads M343 west through Joliet, with a CN "icon" unit trailing.

Heading west into the setting sun, CN's M343 progresses towards the Rock in Joliet, where it will enter the CN's East Joliet Yard for switching.

A very nice catch! BCOL 4606 leads the westbound M343 through New Lenox.

CN's westbound M343 rolls right along through New Lenox, bound for the Joliet Yard and points north from there.

A lengthy M343 heads north through Crest Hill, powered by a CN Canadian cab C44-9WL and a pair of Illinois Central SD70's.