75, looking a little worse-for-wear, could use a bath and a new, bolted nose. The 43ºF weather is melting all our snow, but on the bright side, it's now good packing snow!

A three way meet in Downers Grove...The train with 404 was a flipback and went past the station (to the left) on the far track, and came back to where it is now. The intermodal had to stop for thi... (more)

A short train backs out of Willow Springs Yard's small mixed freight yard (it's mainly a huge UPS facility) and out onto the mainline. With an Santa Fe caboose on the rear and a Santa Fe GP35 in t... (more)

ICE westbound highballs out of Kirkland, passing under Route 72.

A westbound manifest lights up the night and my favorite signal bridge.

The builder's plate on METX 198. This is the last class of locomotive to have the "LaGrange" box checked.

Five days before takeover....ICE 6419 West stops at the west end of the bridge to get permission past the red signal at Sabula, giving the gathered railfans a chance to run around and get shots fr... (more)

A rare treat shows up in Downers today. This CN Canadian cab Dash 9 slowly goes into the curve with a BNSF buddy, leading a mixed train with many rare cars, including a Grand Trunk Western extra-l... (more)

The engineer of the Westbound California Zephyr waves to the flagman at Forest Avenue, who was sent to gaurd the crossing after I called BNSF. The maintenance crew arrived very quickly and replace... (more)

9048 throttles up, passing Old Glory and the nice foliage (surprisingly not dead with this drought) at the Hinsdale Metra station.

The first SD75M I've seen in a long while. Leading an SD70MAC on an empty coal train.

With help from an H2 Dash 8 and 9, and a CN SD75I.

407 pulls Lisle's "Polar Express," with Santa and other characters onboard, at trackspeed through Downers Grove. While not as impressive as Pere Marquette 1225, it's still nice to hear an MP36 roa... (more)

Classic German car waits in the parking lot as a not-so-classic American locomotive thunders by. I saw the Beetle parked there and just had to get a shot of it. The third locomotive is a P40DC; no... (more)

Super-shiny, most likely freshly de-Warbonneted, 892, teams up with a 70MAC on a westbound manifest.