With the classic Bluebonnet/Cascade green lash-up still working the West Chicago Branch, R CHI452 heads south through Aurora.

It's always nice to catch a BNSF train without any orange power. Bluebonnet GP60 167 and Cascade green GP39M 2740 complete their slow trek down the West Chicago Branch as a crew member flags the l... (more)

Today's R CHI452 approaches the West Chicago Branch in Aurora with Bluebonnet GP60 #167 leading Cascade green GP39M #2740. With a little later departure out of Eola today, it gave an opportunity t... (more)

After working 2 industries in Batavia for a few hours on a gorgeous fall evening, R-CHI452 heads back south to Eola Yard on the BNSF West Chicago Spur. This line is the oldest part of the former C... (more)

R-CHI452 finishes the day arriving back at Eola Yard getting off the BNSF West Chicago Spur over by Hill Yard. The West Chicago Branch is unique itself. It is the oldest part of the former Chicago... (more)

A unit train full of frac sand, BNSF U-EOCDOU0-06, originating in Eola, Illinois, and heading to Douglas, Wyoming, is being pulled by BNSF ES44DC 7201 and SD70Ace 9316 (with ES44C4 8241 on the rea... (more)

Rolling west is BNSF Railway train H-BRCNTW1-23, which originated at Belt Railway of Chicago’s Clearing Yard and is bound for Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This merchandise train (T... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is just 37½-miles into its 2,265-mile journey from Chicago IL to Los Angeles CA, and it is already 23 minutes late – an inauspicious start!... (more)

BNSF Warbonnet C44-9W 792 leads H-GALNSI East past the Route 59 station just after midnight.

ex BN 3142 EMD GP50 wearing a fresh coat of BNSF paint and reclassified as GP25 basks in the sunlight at Eola Yard.

A sea of stainless steel
On a weekend, a gaggle of Burlington Northern “Dinky” commuter trains lay over in a crowded Hill Yard at Aurora, Illinois, on April 16, 1988.

While the rain begins to subside, BNSFs H-GALCNI1 27A crawls out of Aurora, IL and towards BNSFs Eola Yard with a former IC SD70 in the lead.

Still hauling passengers as Electro-Motive Division intended, a trio of Burlington Northern E9A locomotives line up with commuter trains in the BN/Metra Hill Yard at Aurora, Illinois, on April 16,... (more)

Metra 189 rests after arriving in Aurora with a outbound.

The end of August '92 featured the last run of E-units in Chicagoland commuter service for the BN. Four of the last E-units on the roster are seen at Aurora awaiting their next move. Tom Golde... (more)