Poking out of the Nesquehoning tunnel, RBMN 425 puts on a show for a line of 30 photographers at the south/west portal of the tunnel while they fight upgrade back towards Outer Station.

NS 5333 leads a long cut from the steel mill on a short transfer from Lakefront Yard to Michigan Avenue Yard for B09’s crew to pickup a short time later to take to I/N Tek in New Carlisle, India... (more)

On a snowy New Years Day ‘22, CN ET44AC 3115 the BCOL heritage unit, one of 5 CN heritage units leads a 1x1x1 consist on Q116 as it flys through Plainfield past the abandoned elevator that every... (more)

The EJ&E heritage unit finds itself in unfamiliar Missabe territory as it leads M347 north under the Route 37 overpass on the Missabe Subdivision.

Normally, the Metra Heritage Corridor System from Chicago Union Station - Joliet Union Station does not operate trains on Saturday’s and Sunday’s, but for Oktoberfest they have been. METX HX01... (more)

On Veterans Day 2022, Metra Rush Hour is underway at where Noble Street Tower once was as METX 151 heads into the last bit of evening golden hour with Metra 39 for Elburn while Metra’s Heritage ... (more)

SAHW dashes through Bargersville with INRD 9025 leading.

After a foot of snow fell over the weekend, causing there to be no trains on the Troy Grove Sub, Union Pacific’s LPJ05 busts through plow lines in Elva, Illinois.

After loading grain at a grain elevator a few miles to the north, BLOL 7591 makes it’s way back south with loaded grain hoppers to take back to Gibson City. The train would later tie down at Ris... (more)

IHB 4022 crawls around 5mph as it shoves the pulldown/Yard hump back into Blue Island Yard, blocking other road freights and hogging the mainline from continuing their journey.

IC 1038 leads L536 south out of Downtown Chicago on the CN Joliet Sub

UP ZCIG4 heads eastbound out of Toluca through the open Illinois farmland with UP 1995, the Chicago & North Western heritage unit leading the way as they begin to get close to their terminating p... (more)

B419 crosses the Kankakee River at Momence with CSXT 911 leading, the “Spirit of Our First Responders” locomotive. The afternoon spring sunshine made this amazing locomotive stand out!

Missabe Remains. DMIR 409 and GTW 5934 lead a rail train on the Iron Range Subdivision through Biwabik, as the old Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Biwabik Roundhouse still stands strong in the backgro... (more)

IAIS 707 cruises down 5th Street in Davenport with cars for the CP to pickup.