L-TWI672 the “Watertown local” crawls through Bellingham on the Watertown Subdivision with BNSF 1462 and 129. 1462 still wears its Cascade Burlington Northern green.

Big Mean Green Machine’s. L-TWI672 the “Watertown local” crawls through Nassau on the Watertown Subdivision with BNSF 1462 and 129.

First light of sunshine has just peaked over the horizon as L-TWI672 heads across the fields of eastern South Dakota on the Watertown Subdivision with SD60M 1462 leading GP60M 129. This job goes w... (more)

After a pickup at Ortonville, and then 3 hours of work at Big Stone City, L-TWI661 puts the throttle into notch 8 as they finish getting off the Big Stone Branch back onto the Appleton Subdivision... (more)

L-TWI661, the Willmar - Aberdeen local thunders west on the Appleton Sub, just about reaching the summit of the uphill climb on Coteau Des Prairies. GP60M 112, SD40-2 1616 and GP60 162 take the he... (more)

On a sunny evening during rush hour in the Twin Cities, the 17:30 Northstar departs Target Field station and over the Mississippi River through Downtown Minneapolis.

Recently IAIS’ SD38-2’s have been put back into service and taken out of storage. Here we see 152, 153 and a GEVO duck under the Putnum elevator with PESI in tow on a sunny summer evening.

Engine of Nickel and a Tail of Flags.

L536 crawls through Corwith under the GM&O era signal cantilever before getting held up for hours at Bridgeport with a duo of IC SD70’s.

Two of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago‘s SW1’s shove the empties they just brought back from the dumping fields in McCook into in the loader at their homebase in... (more)

The Chicago Sanitary District does their morning routine as they head back from taking their morning dump at the dumping fields in McCook. Two classic CSDX SW1’s take charge on this humid summer... (more)

Just after sunrise, UP 1982, the MoPac heritage leads a short ZBRG2 through Elmhurst as it descends into its arrival at Global 2.

With there being around 50 minutes to midnight, a late CSX I191/UP ICOG4 thunders south through the heart of Downtown Lemont with a pair of C40-9W’s. The leader being YN2.

Q-NYCLAC makes good time as it crosses the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal at MP 24.7 with NS 8025, the Monongahela heritage unit leading.

B05 crosses into Michigan at the Indiana/Michigan stateline with two NS GP60’s for power. I had gotten the train at the coaling tower in Michigan City, but I messed my photo up. I immediately ho... (more)