L-CHI104's power moves to its train, giving quite the smoke show as it moves through the yard.
An outbound 'scoot' overtakes CN U267 with the CN 3023 leading. This is 3023's first time running via Schiller Park since being repainted into EJ&E colors. Before heading north, they waited out ru... (more)
It took awhile, but a CSX ST70AH has finally made its way onto the CP. This train will become CP 689 once it is in Bensenville Yard. Here it is rolling past the Tower B-12 signal bridge.
For the first time in many years, TTI (IRMX) 260 makes it debut, running the caboose train at the Illinois Railway Museum.
UP 1111 gets moving from a crew swap at Proviso Yard, opening up the throttle upon entering the Geneva Subdivision.
Yellow leaves, yellow signs and yellow locomotives? All three go well together as Metra's latest heritage locomotive brings a non-revenue train through Des Plaines.
AMTK 161, now in Phase I colors, makes its inaugural run north past Morton Grove, IL on the rear of Empire Builder #7. The locomotive is headed to St. Paul, MN to be put on display for Union Depot... (more)
In a rather peculiar turn of events, CP SD60 #6222 was called to service for a Metra PTC test train. No one would've ever expected to see a SD60 hauling passenger cars!
A BNSF coal train passes the shoofly just east of the Highlands Metra station with an ex-BN 'Executive' SD70MAC leading. This is one of only a handful of these that are equipped with PTC.
Metra MD-N inbound train 2156 prepares to depart the Northbrook Metra station as an outbound 'scoot' approaches.
H KCKGAL sits tied down by the Cameron Connector under starry skies with BNSF 5869, a 25th Anniversary ES44AC, leading.
CP 7012 leads CP 281 through Des Plaines, past a colorful variety of flowers.
An extremely shiny CP 8177 leads CP 286 past Des Plaines. This locomotive was recently released from GE (now Wabtec) after being rebuilt in Fort Worth, TX and went north on CP 475 to St. Paul,... (more)
The Chesapeake & Indiana Railroad concludes 2020 after leaving 15 tanker cars at Union Mills for the CSX to pickup at a later time.
CSX K814 slowly rolls into Bensenville Yard, approaching Scott Street.
