After going missing in action for nearly two years, for PTC and other miscellaneous upgrades, the sole Chicago & NorthWestern painted locomotive left on a class one railroad, heads point on an int... (more)

Summer temperatures spread out across Chicagoland, as BNSF’s last active “smurf” locomotive rumbles over the Des Plaines river in Lemont. Recently reactivated after BNSF ridded their rails o... (more)

With a healthy cut of traffic for Bozeman, train LB, dubbed the “Bozeman Bullet”, wines along the Yellowstone River with two of MRLs SD40s up front. With the impending BNSF takeover, many wond... (more)

Metra’s new Chicago Burlington & Quincy commemorative locomotive is seen here pulling into Naperville for a station stop on a freezing winter night.

An icon to Montana, and hard to find around the country, one of the last straight SD45s rumbles up the MRL Montana City Branch with a few cars of concrete for Helena. Paired up with the 355 is the... (more)

After a light layer of snow blanketed the Chicagoland area the night before, BNSFs Galesburg to Chicago manifest traverses the Southern Transcon with a former Santa Fe GP50 up front. The blue & ye... (more)

On a warm Spring afternoon, UP #7443, a GEVO repainted with Letters instead of Flags, Crawls to a stop right outside of the Metra Station.

40 Years Young... We take a trip back to the 1980s, as a trio of former BN EMDs cruise around the Lemont Curve with 105 in tow. Truly a sight to see in 2020.

After receiving a shiny new coat of paint in NS’s Altoona Shops out in Pennsylvania, the new & improved Reading Heritage unit glides over the Fox River in Geneva, IL. This was its first run on f... (more)

A Z-Train flies by some factories as it heads for the west coast.

One of Metra’s new locomotives, the SD70MACH, is seen here rounding around Tower A2 just outside of downtown Chicago. Surreal feeling watching these new rebuilt passenger spec coal-hauling engin... (more)

Bozeman pass, known across the country as one of the more iconic mountain passes that trains traverse, sees a local once a week with some of the last GP35 locomotives left in operation. On this su... (more)

The sun breaks through the clouds as a pair of end cab switchers, an SW1500 & MP15, take a small cut of cars out of the yard, and towards the lead west of here where they’ll switch for a while.

The day has come for the Big Boy to head west for Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Here it is ducking under Ex-C&NW Searchlights.

Seen high above Bronzeville in Chicago, CNs L536 transfer crawls out of the city with two Illinois Central paint SD70s for power.