After working the Nestle plant in Burlington, L504 heads back north to Waukesha with IC 3102 and GTW 4927.

Heavy snowfall as IC 1027 leads CN train E251 , Westbound , through Bellevue Michigan with the abandoned Cement Factory ruins in the background.

The Modern IC at EJ&E Depot No. 4. With a fresh blanket of snow on the ground, Canadian National job L509 with a pair of IC SD70’s, 1022 and 1020 head south towards East Morris after ho... (more)

IC 1022 and 1020 are in charge of a 51 car L509 as they get underway towards the River Line and East Morris while crossing the 1934 built Bridge 198 over the Des Planes River.

Down The Main Street. After some switching at KA Steel (Olin Chemical), the Millsdale Oil Local, L545, crawls through historic Downtown Lemont due to PTC restrictions up to Flagstone while ... (more)

IC SD70 1000 leads CN A407 North past the old IC depot in Peotone.

Although it’s been 26 years since the Illinois Central was bought out by Canadian National in 1998, the Illinois Central still lives and runs on their home trackage, as demonstrated here. CN’s... (more)

With a IC GP40R in it’s orignal “Deathstar” scheme followed by a GTW repaint, L565 can be seen beginning their evening as they depart Dubuque to head to Manchester.

With the Chicago Skyline off In the horizon 30 miles to the north, L536 can be viewed with the IC 1000 and 1019 once again, where they are zig-zagging through the Matteson Connection to make the t... (more)

It’s a cold, but sunny afternoon in the South Side of Chicago, as Canadian National’s daily L536 transfer job from Glenn Yard to Kirk Yard is seen racing out of Downtown Chicago while parallel... (more)

On a brutally cold afternoon in Chicago, L536 heads south with a pair of Illinois Central SD70's leading on home rails. This is a sight that will never get tiring.

The Thunderbird Mine stands in the background as the Deathstar trio is ready to make a pull. The crew is preparing to shove the train to the loader. The thick cloud cover made it tricky to find su... (more)

IC 6252, 6251 and 6260 slowly roll along, approaching Fairlane with loads from the T-Bird mine in Eveleth. EMD's are rare on T-Bird trains, making a trio of Deathstar SD40-3's that much more of a ... (more)

The famous Illinois Central Deathstar trio exits Main 2 at N Fairlane, slowly making way to the nearby United Taconite Fairlane plant. In charge of another train of raw iron ore, the trio looked a... (more)

IC 6252, 6251 and 6260 depart the Fairlane processing plant with ore empties for the Thunderbird mine in Eveleth, MN. All three units still wear the classic Illinois Central "Deathstar" ... (more)