Rumors have been floating around that the coal fired, Midwestern Generating Station in Romeoville would possibly close down in the near future, or make a transition to Natural Gas. Now that rumor ... (more)

It’s a rare sight to get one Union Pacific standard cab leading a train with 2022 knocking on the door, but pure trio of Union Pacific standard cabs on one train is well beyond rare. The only pl... (more)

On a humid morning, Ed Dickens puts on a show with UP 4014 as they thunder north for Duluth past a deadline of stored SD70MAc’s at BNSF’s Northtown Yard in Minneapolis.

It’s the end of the line for the majority of street running for South Shore Line trains in Michigan City. Beginning February 28, 2022, construction will begin. Eventually, the road will be conve... (more)

Southern Remains. On a rainy afternoon in Central Georgia, this hidden gem rusts away with time hidden in the backwoods of Wadley. Mother Nature has reclaimed most of the area, as trees hav... (more)

Thunderstorms roll out of the Joliet area while a UP SD60 and two SD40N’s switch a cut of over 100 baretables around at UP’s Global IV facility in Joliet/Elwood. 2182 has been a yard goat at G... (more)

Both of Indiana Harbor Belt’s to most favorited locomotives by railfans sit side by side at Blue Island Yard on the end of a Monday afternoon in Riverdale. IHB’s last SD38-2 still in service r... (more)

On a gloomy morning, various equipment sits around at Wisconsin Great Northern.

On April 25th, 1946 in Naperville at 1:03pm a train slammed into another train that was stopped on the tracks killing 46 people and injuring 125. The engineer of the train that hit the stopped one... (more)

It’s a busy weekday afternoon in Downtown Aurora as C-BTMCXC crosses Galena Blvd on the 2,000 foot long section of elevated trackage splitting through the heart of downtown. The elevated trackag... (more)

KBSR 704 and 701 take 25 loads to Danville as they head up the connection towards the Danville Line.

Q117 hogs the main at CP Turner while getting a recrew, while L509 sneaks around it through the siding with a whopping 5 tankers for Aux Sable. A pair of classic black Illinois Central SD70s lead ... (more)

After a small squall line of snow showers raced through Downtown Chicago on a windy and chilly Halloween afternoon, Metra rush hour at Ogilvie Transportation Center is starting to begin as numerou... (more)

IC E9A #101, built as CB&Q 9977 rests away at Kokomo, IN late last night in storage, and now owned by Iowa Pacific awaiting sale in a bankruptcy auction.

BLOL 7591 and LTEX 3802 finish running around their train and make their way back south to Gibson City with loads beginning the journey back south heading south out of Cullom, seen here passing th... (more)