After holding for the Portland doublestack, the 476 job screams towards Rochelle, seen here outside Shabbona, with a Burlington Northern paint SD40 up front.
Riding on home rails for the first time in a long time, former BN SD40, now BNSF 1706, screams west through the small town of Hinckley with a long cut of cars for Oregon & Rochelle.
Three EMDs, all sporting different paint schemes, race through the cornfields of rural Illinois along BNSFs Southern Transcon. Always nice to see BN green shining in the evening light.
A former BN SD40-2 leads Local 105 West out of Ancona .
Its a hot day along the smelly and nasty Des Plains River as we see the BNSF Chicago to Galesburg local depart Joliet Yard.
On a hot summer afternoon, an American Flag waves in the wind in the background as L-CHI105 throttles in notch 8 beginning the journey to Galesburg from GM Yard in Hodgkins, seen here wasting abso... (more)
After working Joliet Yard for about 45 minutes, L-CHI105 smokes it up out of Joliet screaming in notch 8 this evening with a cascade BN green SD40-2, #1706 leading the way towards Galesburg.
L CHI105 highballs west through the small town of Ransom, passing the large grain elevator complex on a beautiful, summer evening. Leading the charge is a Cascade green SD40-2, #1706.
BNSF 1706, still wearing its Burlington Northern paint leads L-CHI105 westbound over the Des Planes River bridge on the BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision in Lemont, Illinois.
Former BN SD40-2 1706 leads Local 105 west through Burr Ridge.
A BN SD40 takes the 452 local west through Lisle on the former BN Racetrack, within the last minutes of sunlight.
A former BN SD40-2 leads R-CHI457 west through Brookfield.
Looking right at home on the race track. An ex Burlington Northern SD40-2 leads a local through the west suburbs of Chicago on its way back to Eola Yard in Aurora.
A former BN SD40-2 leads CHIGAL west through Romeoville.
A pair of SD40s, the leader wearing cascade green, take the Chicago to Galesburg manifest around the bend in Lemont on a sunny afternoon.
