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)

Making a early return to Belvedere on a Presidents Day morning, YBE51X, or “The KD local” crawls through Downtown Cherry Valley with UPY 705 and 700 and no cars to bring back to Belvedere.

The clock hits midnight as G59 departs BRC’s Clearing Yard after having air issues. NS 8098, the Conrail Heritage Unit, and CP 7020, the Army Temperate Regions Veterans Unit lead the middle of t... (more)

Union Pacific 4014 continues its tour of the Midwest as Ed Dickens takes the train out of Milwaukee on the Milwaukee Subdivision bound for its next stop in West Chicago, Illinois.

Vibrant blue skies fill the morning air, while L509 begins its trek down the River Subdivision with a pair of Illinois Central SD70s as they pass by the Plainfield Police Department K9 Memorial.

CN 3115, the BCOL heritage unit shines in the afternoon sun as it rounds the curve on the trek up Joliet Hill with Q116 at tow, as they approach Mills Road.

ILSX 942 shuffles a few boxcars around at Maverick Wines and National Sugar Marketing in the Industrial Park in Bensenville and Elk Grove Village.

Union Pacific’s Winter Olympics SD70M #2002 has been in and out of the Chicagoland region as of lately on stack trains. On the evening of Valentine’s Day ‘22, UP 2002 and another GE split th... (more)

After a 4 hour wait for the BRC to be able to take them, R-CHI457 hugs the abandoned Manufactures Railway bridge while they head under on the connection from the BNSF onto the BRC. A veteran ‘Wa... (more)

The sun attempts to poke through the wildfire haze as the MRF cruises along on the Iron Range Subdivision at Biwabik.

After getting held up at almost every spot on the mainline, Q198 wastes absolutely no time as they fly around the curve at CP River with the Wisconsin Central heritage unit on the point.

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)

Indiana Rail Road’s 25th anniversary SD9043MAC 9025, INRD 9007 and 4004 wait outside the south end of Senate Ave Yard for a crew with the Sunday - Friday SAHW (Senate Ave - Hiawatha Yard) in tow... (more)

Rumor has it that the coal fired, Midwestern Generating Station in Romeoville is supposedly going to close down this summer. They own two former Illinois Central SD20 locomotives to haul coal in a... (more)

Making their last run before being put into storage, KJRY 1750 stops for a few minutes with a westbound freight over the Spoon River with a photo opportunity for the many photographers chasing the... (more)