On a warm summer afternoon, the Chicago to Galesburg local rounds the bend over the Des Plaines River in Lemont, IL... with a Retro BNSF lashup... a pair of Heritage 1 SD40s.

After bypassing Bensenville, a trio of CP standard cab EMDs take the daily CP 287 towards the curve into Deval Junction. A former SOO SD60 leads 287 today, with an SD30C-ECO & Dual Flag SD40 trail... (more)

As the rain picks up, a former IC SD70 rockets through Plano, IL, passing the old CB&Q depot in the middle of town.

With heavier snow starting to descend, Wisconsin & Southern’s fan favorite road train crawls to a halt just north of Waukesha, WI due to a cold shutdown issue with one of the trailing motors.

Spring in Chicagoland, after a day of severe weather, the following day opened up 50s & sun, perfect weather for South Shore’s NORX coal empties to traverse the system. Todays train has one of t... (more)

On a sunny morning high above the valley, MRLs famed Day Gas train rumbles over the Evaro high bridge with 22 cars for Missoula.

One of Three active H2 SD60Ms lead the 457 job through Lisle with a former BN SD40 in tow. Nice to find this racing an outbound Metra.

Two former Union Pacific, now leased, MP15s, drag a short cut of grain aside Lake Michigan on a frigid January afternoon.

On a windy chilly afternoon, an engine quite familiar with this line, an IC SD70, rumbles west by the IC era R2 trilight signal outside Plato Center. With these older signals being wiped off the m... (more)

In the middle of summer, with moments of sunlight left, one of the few IAIS GPs with PTC leads the daily BICB through Tinley Park.

After roughly two weeks of being in the shops after receiving a crankcase over pressure alarm, many thought the last of MRLs iconic SD45 fleet was done for. However, Livingston brought it back to ... (more)

After working UP’s Global II in Proviso, UP 6706, the last active C&NW patch locomotive, drags stacks east for NS’s Ashland Ave. yard. Seen here, in River Forest.

On a warm sunny day in central Illinois, NS’s Midwestern Icon D36 hi-tails south by Wabash searchlights just north of Monticello, IL, with a pair of SD40s.

A former BN SD60M leads a trio of GPs through Romeoville with 105, after stopping outside Willow Springs for a Z train.

On a crystal clear evening in downtown Chicago, Metra’s Chicago Burlington & Quincy commemorative locomotive head ends an outbound rush trainset. Seen here from the Roosevelt Rd bridge.