One of two experimental BN white face patch jobs switches the East end of Cicero in the morning light.

NS 5227 sits shutdown waiting for an NS crew to take him back home.

A vintage can opener idles away in the crisp morning sun light as a BNSF yard job pulls past for headroom.

A tattered and torn GP15 heads off for yard duty while a visiting NS GP38 keeps one of NRE's creations company on the engine tracks.

A pair of yard jobs shuffle around Clyde prepairing the day's intermodel traffic. Pictured are BNSF GP39M 2813, GP39E 2913, GP38 2169, and BN GP38 2132.

A trio of IC SD40-2's do the honors on this evenings M338 train as it arrives Hawthorne Yard in Cicero.

The 4689 and NS SD70M-2 were just cut off from a hot Z train; while the other GPs wait for their next assignments.

BN SD40-2, MRL SD40-2, NREX (ATSF) SD45-2. Neat set of power.

A GP39M and GP28M, both sporting variations of the BN white face livery, idle the night away in Clyde Yard.

A trio of SD40-2s, two in IC black and one in CN colors, have stopped for the conductor to line switches into Hawthorne Yard.

A patched ATSF B40-8W sits in the fuel racks in Cicero. After a quick check over, the units will be released and ready to head back west with yet another load of tonnage.

A trio of Bluebonnets, 2 GP38-2's and a B23-7, await a crew before departing for points west. They would sit here until the next morning.

WSOR's daily Janesville to Chicago manifest is held up briefly at 31st St. while opposing traffic clears up.

Just after midnight, M338 waits for a minute to have switches lined. Consist was all IC black, 2 SD40-2s and 2 GP38s. Very cool!

BNSF 6101 and company get re-fueled and serviced while MRL F45 390 idles away in the background. In the railfan world, this isn't something thats supposed to happen, let alone on a Class 1.