St. Louis Steam: After high-balling St. Louis, UP 844 creeps across TRRA's MacArthur Bridge, after being given a 10mph slow order by the West Belt dispatcher. The St. Louis Arch is visible ... (more)

The MRS transfer with lots of "suds" descends the east approach to the MacAuthur Bridge as it heads to Alton and Southern's Gateway yard.

Never Again: Three 1500's and a 1200 bring a TRRA transfer job across the Merchants Bridge headed for Madison Yard. Although TRRA has some nice new GP38 and SD40 rebuilds, and a great new p... (more)

A gorgeous fall afternoon on the bluffs of the Rock River is greeted with BNSF 6563 and 7694 leading an autorack train east of Oregon, IL.

A Green Line Train bound for Ashland/63rd, approaches State/Lake station. It's previous stop Clark/Lake can be seen in the distance. Take from the Wit Hotel.

Metra 213 leads a outbound train over the LaGrange Rd bridge as it approaches 143rd St Station in Orland Park.

Metra 213 leads a outbound train out of downtown Orland Park.

As the sun heads for the horizon, CP 473 rolls through Kittredge with an old school lash-up. The train is 23 miles from a crew change in Savanna.

A westbound UP trackage rights train crosses the small trestle just west of Kinsman on BNSF's Chillicothe subdivision.

Power strapped Milwaukee Road leased a number of B&O GP's and 3 of them found their way onto the Nahant to Savanna way-freight which ran over the Rock Island to East Moline and then north on the A... (more)

NS 4271 and the Norfolk Southern Office Car Special roll west over the Calumet River and towards Chicago's Union Station.

Over the government bridge...

ATSF GP60 4033 leads a GP50 and another GP60 westbound near Wilbern, IL with a stack train. Even though we were trolling for Superfleet consists, catching a clean blue and yellow consist of Geeps ... (more)

The Land O' Corn

Westbound Illinois Railway "plow extra" crosses the frozen Fox River on the west side of Sheridan with a pair of ex-CNW SD50s sandwiching an ex-SP SD45T-2.