Thunderstorms roll in as Y-JOL202 puts the hammer down as they thunder west past a Demolition Derby car show at Patterson Road in Joliet.

The sun rises above Lake Superior as the first ray of sun shines on Dock 6 while IC 6251, 6252 and CN 5244 unload ore at the docks. 6251 is the last IC SD40-3 still in service with white frame str... (more)

Construction continues on the replacement of the Merchants Bridge as TRRA 101 crosses the Mighty Mississippi’ into Missouri with a pair of TRRA SD40-2’s.

The sun has just peaked over the horizon as L-TWI880 does every bit of trackspeed at sunrise through Clara City, MN on the Marshall subdivision with BNSF 1940, 1776 and 2909.

The crossing guard protects a rural farm crossing outside of Avalon, Wisconsin as SOO Line 1003 thunders towards Janesville with a short freight.

An eastbound Lafayette-bound grain train of 50 loads heads east into the small community of Otterbein, IN with two KBSR GP38-2’s at point.

Viewed from the building tops of Downtown Elmhurst, Union Pacific’s DRGW Heritage Unit, UP SD70ACe #1989 departs Proviso Yard (Global 2) in Northlake beginning its journey for Lathrop, Californi... (more)

KBSR 705 and 706 shove 9 tankers for the CN interchange in Kankakee while another pair of GP38-2’s lead the head end, seen here passing the former TP&W RS11 (#340) in Beaverville.

Two unique locomotives meet at CP Harvey In Blue Island. BP2 has the right-of-way as it crosses the CSX Chicago Heights Sub with the famed GP40P-2 leading a regular GP40-2. The CSX 911 with M642 w... (more)

A pair of SD40-2’s shove one of BNSF’s ‘Joliet locals’ (train Y-JOL202) based out of Joliet Yard. Seen here shoving its train up the ‘59 lead’ and over the wooden bridge over Grant Cre... (more)

After working Champaign for many hours during the wee hours of the morning, A408 gets a early start as it continues south on the Mainline of Mid America with a matching duo of Illinois Central SD7... (more)

2 NS SD40-2’s, 3517 and 3326 take charge of B09, as they hop off the NS Chicago Line and onto the IHB at the steel mill surrounded CP 502. The historic Inland Steel Office Building can be seen o... (more)

The sun sets as SAHW continues out of Switz City with a pair of classic SD9043MACs.

Terminal 101 makes a very slow arrival into NS’s Luther Yard as it crawls through some alleyway street running on the north end of St. Louis with a pair of SD40-2’s.

Amtrak 58 makes its arrival into Chicago with a B40-8W leading a broken down ALC-42.