On September 10, 2016, Iowa Interstate ran a series of excursion trains on its Subdivision 2 between Henry and Chillicothe, IL to benefit the Henry Fire Department. Here, the second run of the day... (more)

A duo of CSX EMDs, including a former Conrail SD60I and a rare SD70ACe, lead a westbound vehicle train under the old CB&Q searchlights on the west side of Rochelle.

A westbound oil train passes underneath the old CB&Q signals on the west side of Rochelle, led by a former Conrail SD60I and a Dash8-40CW.

Metra's new "Chicago" commemorative unit accelerates from a stop at the downtown Glenview, IL station with an outbound Metra train.

Metra's "State of Illinois" commemorative unit accelerates from a stop at the downtown Glenview, IL station with an outbound Metra train.

Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 slumbers away on the siding at the Larry S. Provo Training Center in West Chicago, IL, posing for night photos for the various photographers and railfans that have come... (more)

BN still lives! BNSF 1922, an SD40-2 still sporting its Cascade Green paint scheme, leads BNSF local R-CHI472 past the towering grain elevators in the small community of Chana, IL, a few miles eas... (more)

PM 1225 rushes by the famous Carland grain elevator as it leads a North Pole excursion train towards Ashley, MI, where Christmas festivities await the happy train riders.

Canadian National's EJ&E heritage unit pays a visit to the Chicagoland area, leading oil train U268 for NS past JB Tower, a former J structure, in West Chicago, IL. The locomotive looks right a... (more)

A four-pack of CSX locomotives, led by AC4400CW #279, leads an eastbound BNSF manifest past the Rochelle Railroad Park on a chilly November morning.

Norfolk Southern AC44C6Ms #'s 4002 and 4004 charge through Princeton with ethanol empties bound for Mina, SD. These are the first NS DC to AC conversion units to get past Chicagoland, and are look... (more)

CP 472 arrives in Davis Junction with NS Dash 9-40C #8813 leading the way. It will soon perform its work and meet CP 2225, at this time sitting in the siding with a rail train that will head west ... (more)

CP 2225 and SOO 4409 lead a welded rail train in Davis Junction, IL, about to head onto the west leg of the wye. The SOO had been leading the train long hood forward as it laid rail out by Stillma... (more)

SOO 4409 unhooks from a rail train that had been laying rail out by Stillman Valley and prepares to enter the west leg of the Davis Junction wye, while the conductor monitors the movement on the r... (more)

One of UP's new Tier IV locomotives, #2649, leads a westbound manifest over 9th St. in Rochelle, IL, about to pass the railfans at the Rochelle Railroad Park.