Santa Fe could always put on a show on their Chicago mainline to Kansas City and California. Here a quartet of Superfleet power led by ATSF GP60M 142 leads a quartet of Yellow/blue power on a west... (more)

The former Santa Fe station at Streator remains in use as an Amtrak stop. The structure is a classic Santa Fe piece of architecture.

TRRA 3008 (GP40M-3) is paired with TRRA 308 (slug) working the TRRA yard south end.

Amtrak P42 103 wyes the trainset for the Lake Shore Limited in downtown Chicago.

Former BN SD70MAC 9650 leads Z-SSECHC East through Berwyn, approaching its destination of Clyde Yard in Cicero.

UP 6706 leads UP MPRNL at Tuscola,IL

The NS Virginian Heritage unit leads 219 west across Illinois as a recent snow slowly melts away.

A birds eye view of IC 1005 and IC 1017 leading the CN L509 through Plainfield on the former EJE River Line.

IC 1028 leads the CN L509 to Morris for some switching work. A DAIR GP9 will be set out at Motive Power Resources in Minooka Illinois further down the line.

An interesting consist makes up the CPKC 247 on this Valentines Day 2024. KCS 4844, BNSF 9783 and SOO 4448. Guess this would count as a fallen flag locomotive consist.

Iowa Interstate GP38-2 was built by EMD in August 1972 as Penn Central 8020. With the formation of Conrail in 1976, this diesel became CR 8020. It was later sold back to EMD, which placed it in ... (more)

A wore out former TFM unit (TFM 2665) KCSM 4565 and KCS 5016 will be on the outbound CPKC 180 later in the evening.

Dead locomotives waits out their last days in Chicago Heights with their fate already sealed by the cutting torch.

CSX train I007, the hot intermodal train from from North Bergen, NJ to Rose Lake Yard in East St. Louis, IL, is arriving on the "mail track" to unload its cargo.

The local has finished its work in Greenville, Il and is headed back to its home base at Rose Lake Yard in East St. Louis, IL.