With about an hour left until sundown, BNSFs "Lockport Local" begins its work switching out the Grief Packaging Company in downtown Lockport. Running long hood forward, former Santa Fe G... (more)

With most of the town of Union Mills, Indiana asleep after a long weekend, the fabled SDM locomotives of the Chesapeake and Indiana railroad slumber away in their respective yard facilities. Here,... (more)

With its train solid and with about 20 minutes to go until the big event, Soo Line #1003 eases out of the small yard that services the Larpen Metallurgical facility in Hartford. The crew will run ... (more)

With barely any sunlight left and rain rolling in from the west, the crew of Soo Line 2-8-2 #1003 is braving out the cold weather to get the train solid for tomorrow's photo charter. With a large ... (more)

It's October and the fall colors are at their peak in the state of Indiana. With two GEs upfront, Norfolk Southern's fan-favorite Roadrailer swings around the curve near downtown Lafayette as it h... (more)

With the mid-July sunset still a little less than an hour away, Iowa Interstate's nightly Blue Island to Council Bluffs road freight very slowly creeps out of the former Rock Island Burr Oak Yard ... (more)

With a global pandemic still raging on and Metra running at reduced capacity due to low ridership, the company started somewhat of an "Ad Campaign", if you will, to welcome back passenge... (more)

Throwback to the final weeks of summer in 2020... During the IRMs annual showcase weekend, the museum assembled a pretty large "Demonstration" freight consist for their locomotives to shuttle a... (more)

In a fairly rare weekend edition, Norfolk Southern's B05, led by 28-year-old GP60 #7150, parallels the old US-20 highway for a good three miles as it returns from a long day of work along the form... (more)

With the sun finally peaking out of the clouds, the last Wisconsin Central GP40, number 3018, slowly pulls out of Markham Yard with a long string of intermodal traffic behind it. This locomotive i... (more)

In the early evening light, CSX W226, with a former Clinchfield SD40 leading, slowly glides under the former Chicago and Northwestern "Type E" signals that are still directing traffic to... (more)

After assembling its train, the former Soo Line GP38-2 pulls past the B12 signal bridge in Franklin Park with quite a big IM1 behind it. With only a handful of these locomotives left on the roster... (more)

With locomotive 8030 shoving, the conductor clings on to the tail end of train 280 as they roll past B12 in Franklin Park preparing to double up the consist. 280 would leave Bensenville Northbound... (more)

16 years after the beginning of the lease, BC Rail is still going strong... After a long wait for a crew on the BRC, BCOL #4617 roars through River Grove, IL on the CP Elgin sub in perfect ligh... (more)

When people think of ALCo diesels, they probably think of something like this: With the Illinois Railway Museum's coach train underway, GB&W 2407, commonly nicknamed the "alligator", ... (more)