A six pack of TPW power crawl out of Goodland, IN with a long 80 car train for Peoria in tow. This crew will take the train to Gilman and tie down, and another crew, on at 11pm, will finish the jo... (more)

The last CP Olympic Locomotive rounds the bend in Des Plaines on a sunny morning.

This engine brought many railfans trackside... as a GP60M hasn’t led near Chicago in quite a long time. Heres the 60M flying through the truss over the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal.

On a hazy morning, UPs Southern Pacific heritage unit crawls east after holding for Metra rush, seen here between Maple Park and Elburn.

On a warm evening, a whopping 10 Gevos round the bend in Lemont with a short intermodal for LPC in tow.

After initializing PTC just outside of town, CSS 805 charges into Gary, IN with a long string of NORX coal empties in tow.

On Martin Luther King Day, an Amtrak Dash 8 cruises to a stop in Naperville, IL.

A pair of UP EMDs cruise around the curve and under the former CA&E Railroad Bridge in Wheaton, IL.

With engineer sunshine behind the wheel, a CSX “powder” 70mac crawls out of CP Liberty, with greens till CP Normantown... seen here ducking under the Rt. 34 bridge on the Aurora Naperville bor... (more)

A pair of Aces fly under the Ex-C&NW Searchlights & Coaling Tower in Nelson.

With the mornings sunlight only a few minutes old, ROBCHI rounds the sharp bend in Lemont, with a KCS Ace leading 4 KCSM AC44s... 2 of which, 4th & 5th out, still sport the older grey ghost scheme... (more)

With a crew only minutes from timing out, A490 cruises south down the J, towards its crew change point south of town. The winter light made these KCS Bells pop quite nicely.

On a cooler summer morning, on first of the new month, Iowa Interstate’s SIBI train cuts through downtown Tinley Park, IL with the Rock Island heritage locomotive up front.

Nothing says history like the old Illinois Central (now amtrak) station depot in downtown Kankakee. With this, two IC SD70s lead a wayfreight south towards Centralia on a crystal clear afternoon

A Metra Deadhead races through Lisle’s Metra Station in Downtown with a rebuilt PHM for power.