Hot on the heels of a UP vehicle train, westbound containers from Chicago led by a trio of BNSF Dash 9's snake around Houlihan's Curve on their way up and out of the Illinois River Valley. This we... (more)

With only minutes of daylight left, NS manifest train #14E cruises eastward over the Lafayette District about to knock down the clear signal at CP "Martin" just behind me. The long Decat... (more)

Kicking up the snow, a long westbound vehicle train from the Chicago area hustles across the Chillicothe Subdivision heading through its namesake town during an on-going winter snowstorm. The trai... (more)

Barely into its cross-country journey, Global IV Joliet, IL to Long Beach (ICTF), CA trackage rights container train F-KG4LB roars upgrade through the small town of Edelstein with three units elep... (more)

A pair if Iowa Interstate EMD's head southbound on the 2nd Subdivision with a late BUSW-19 freight in tow for Peoria.

A westbound Logistics Park, IL to Long Beach, CA cross-country stack train begins its uphill assault on Edelstein Hill by rounding the famed Houlihan’s Curve outside of Chillicothe.

Union Pacific's daily Proviso (Chicago), IL to Pine Bluff, AR manifest train works its way down the Chester Subdivision near Fults, IL led by not to shabby looking NS standard cab Dash 8. The high... (more)

Snaking right around the Houlihans Curve, a westbound loaded "Earthworm" grain train starts its attack on Edelstein Hill led by three BNSF ES44DC's and one on the rear. These train's get... (more)

Doing its best to evade the morning's rain showers, Kansas City to St. Paul-Pigs Eye tonnage on northbound Canadian Pacific mixed merchandise train 475 slowly trundles upgrade out of the Iowa Rive... (more)

Light from the morning sun soaks the scene of Union Pacific transfer job YKS62 11 exiting the mass of abandoned and repurposed warehouse buildings of Kansas City’s West Bottoms District beneath ... (more)

Basking in the late afternoon sun, UP 521 sits on a side track off Union Pacific's Columbus Subdivision behind the UP depot.

Heading through this line's namesake town, Clearing Yard (Chicago) to Pine Bluff, AR manifest train MCHPB-13 slowly glides down the Villa Grove Subdivision headed for a crew change at the depot ju... (more)

The late-spring sun baths the Illinois landscape as westbound Chicago (Corwith), IL to Stockton, CA doublestack train Q-CHISTO6 12L begins its climb up Edelstein Hill as it works its way around Ho... (more)

A KCS "Southern Belle" ES44AC hustles an extra section of trackage rights autorack train F-AGBML around Houlihan's Curve on BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision. This was my first ever time shooting a K... (more)

The rising sun shines ever bright upon eastbound crude oil train U TNDCXP1 18T as it swings out of Rochelle beneath this now extinct CB&Q intermediate bridge on the Aurora Subdivision. These loade... (more)