As the sun starts to lower, a CSX Mac Leads a Westbound Tank Train under Columbia Rd. in Naperville, IL
As a hotshot stack races east, LPJ cruises west with a pair of GPs & an AC44. Nice to see a TripleCrown trailer out and about as well.
Taking Chicago by surprise, one of the last BN painted GPs, still sporting a GP30 carbody, roars over the Des Plaines River in some beautiful Golden Light. H1 GP60B, H4 SD60M, & Gevos in trail.
Something that will probably never happen again... a CN Canadian Cab Dash 9 leads an NS Dash 9 on a detoured BNSF Coal Train through Naperville, IL.
Towards the latter half of the BNSFs line Metra rush, one of the few blue F40s that BNSF utilizes hauls through Highlands with its first station stop being Downers Grove. Word on the street, is th... (more)
As twilight blankets the town of Elgin, CNs Iowa Division manifest hi-tails over the Fox River with a pair of matched Illinois Central SD70s. Just like old times!
With a train loaded for Detroit, a pair of BN painted 70macs scream through the northern illinois countryside, seen here having just departed Mendota.
Rounding the sharp bend through Ancona, UPs Military schemed locomotive takes charge of UPs Chicago to California stack train running on foreign rails.
A triclops 60m, H4 60b, & H1 40 crawl around the bend into Lemont, with some lush autumn leaves painting the backdrop.
With IC SD70s being rounded up in the coming months for rebuild into SD70ACC locomotives, we travel to Plainfield, IL for a deathstar duo before they cease to exist. Featuring an old EJ&E Depot.
Warm weather as we take a trip to Chillicothe, IL to catch the Iowa Interstate Steam Excursions!
A freshly washed & rebuilt GP50 rounds the bend with 105, with a plethora of trailing goodies.
Former GO Transit F59PH stops in Lemont on a sunny evening.
On another hot summer day, temperatures neared triple digits, as an empty ballast train races west with a, quite crusty, shield AC44 in the lead.
With the bridge collapse in Reed Point weeks prior, MRL introduced new wayfreights to preform similar acts to LM & ML. One of these additions, was HELBOZ. Thus, here deep in Lombard Canyon, moment... (more)
