The heart of rush hour is underway in Downtown Chicago while a UP-W line train departs Ogilvie Transportation Center above with F59PHI 82 while below a outbound MD-N line train departs Chicago Uni... (more)

After waiting for a few Amtrak and Metra’s at 21st Street and 16th Street, L536 finally gets back underway departing Downtown Chicago passing 31st on the way towards Kirk Yard with two IC SD70â€... (more)

Indiana Rail Road’s SAHW road train with two SD9043MAC’s waits for it’s crew to arrive to finish building their train and take the train west for Palestine, IL.

After making a pickup at Lineage Logistics, the conductor throws the switch off the spur to get back onto the West Chicago Branch Line as BNSF 2740, a rebuilt EMD GP39E leads the way back to Eola,... (more)

With the regional trains mostly having IDOT SC44 chargers nowadays, a P42DC has made its way onto the Carl Sandburg for the first time in awhile, also being the new Phase I heritage unit, AMTK 161... (more)

Getting a fresh start outta Newton for the Quad Cities, IAIS QJ 6988 thunders east through Kellogg with 2100 tons of freight.

Metra 110 shoves train 919 into the coach yard as a Metra Rock Island inbound waits to depart for Chicago with a MP36PH.

Union Pacific’s LSF54 local heads south down the Pequot Branch past the Braceville/Gardner Cemetery as they bring a string of cars from Hoffman Transportation in Coal City.

Traversing high over the East St. Louis community, A&S 101 makes their way into St. Louis to interchange at 12th Street yard with two UP SD60’s and a SD40N.

The 2022 Chicago Transit Authority Holiday Train splits the Eisenhower Expressway on the Blue Line, making a run out of Downtown before arriving at Forest Park.

Seen here cruising into Helmsburg making some good time, the Sunday - Friday Indiana Rail Road road freight, INRD SAHW (Senate Ave Hiawatha Yard) heads south on the former Illinois Central “Hi-D... (more)

IG4SID blows south out of Dwight with UP SD70AH 1943 (Spirit of the Union Pacific) leading.

Minutes before a big snowstorm moves over the Chicagoland area, L-CHI104 crosses the New Rock Subdivision at CP Joliet UD, or UD Tower. SD40-2 1706, still wearing its Burlington Northern green lea... (more)

The 2022 CP Holiday Train crosses the narrow ridge splitting Lake Sabula, heading out of the small community, or nicknamed “Island town” of Sabula, Iowa. In the background is the Mississippi R... (more)

Hoopin’ Orders. NKP 765 does a slow roll-by to hoop it’s orders.