Todays "junk power" shoves the local from Galesburg into GM Yard.

A matched set of four-axle GEs shoves a cut of cars onto the main.

I could see the Conrail blue coming a mile away, but the Southern Belle was a surprise. This is the same train seen in Photo ID 244905. How it got from Altoona, PA, to Hodgkins in a day is anyones... (more)

This late afternoon shots show the variety of old BN and SF motors that are still around working the local jobs here in Chicago. Great to see even if the future looms on these paint jobs.

This UP stack train with all CSX containers just came off Indiana Harbor Belt trackage just after sunrise, and is now on the BNSF mainline heading west over trackage rights out west.

This hot stack train heads west with a very long cut of stack cars for the west coast with a full set of NS units on the point. This is a normal sight on this train.

One of IHB's two SD20s waits for traffic to clear so it can return to home rails.

A yard job comes off the Chillicothe.

My new Nikkor 55-200 VR lens proves its worth getting this shot of a CSX manifest passing by the search lights at Hodgkins.

The sun starts to fade against BNSF 3030, one of the last few GP40X locomotives on the BNSF roster.

Completely un-expected, UP 2002 leads a stacker off the IHB down the ole ATSF and under one of the many fading cantilevers on this historic line.