Waiting on CN's St. Charles airline for inbound Rock Island District train #214, a CN empty coalie will soon head for the BNSF for movement west back to the Powder River.

WIth a plume of smoke provided by engineer Craig Willett, Iowa Pacific's Friday Night Dinner train ducks under the PRR position lights at Racine Avenue on Chicago's near west side. Special thanks ... (more)

With a trainload of boxcars for scrapping, a CSX work extra takes some rare rail mileage to Washington, Indiana where it will be the scrappers torch for these blue wafflesided cars.

Blazing down #1 main for B-12 and CN rails, a North Central train for Antioch heads west into the winter sun.

On a cold winter's night, the ex-Pennsy Position Light Signals are framed against Chicago's Sears Tower, lit up for the holidays.

Rolling towards Hawthorne Yard and the former Illinois Central Iowa Division, NS's orange and tangerine CNJ Heritage Unit heads westbound near Chicago's Chinatown, on the near southside of the cit... (more)

On a cold as cold can get night, NS's local out of their Ashland Ave. Yard waits to tie onto a track at ADM.

A southbound CSX freight negotiates the connection between the B&O and former C&EI rails at Dolton. The tower and reconfiguration of this important rail junction is scheduled to happen within the ... (more)

Slumbering the weekend away, some Metra suburban equipment sits below High St. in Aurora.

Making its move from South Chicago to Burr Oak Yard in Blue Island, the CRL opens it up on the 'mainline' of Metra's Mighty Rock Island District. The depot framed in the shot has been derelict for... (more)

At sun-up, another WBD stacker heads through the desert, and starts its ascent on Ash Hill.

With a former Milwaukee Road Geep for power, CP's 'Comet' takes its' 3 cars of intermodal and heads for NS's Landers Yard on the south side. Complete with a SOO caboose for their back-up move, thi... (more)

Representing the last of the original C&NW power left on the Union Pacific's roster, UP's transfer from Proviso Yard to CN's Markham Yard makes the transition from IHB rails to CSX rails beneath t... (more)

Classic B&O position signals are lit and the gates start to drop as another northbound NS run-thru move nears this small burg just north of Cincinnati, OH.

On a warm summer's evening in Southern Indiana, various Respondek Rail units lineup for some night photos at the Rolling Acres Shops. The former Peabody Coal and Algiers, Winslow and Western relic... (more)