Ever since this engine got patched in 2004, it has managed to escape the paint booth for another 16 years and hold its ground working locals in northern Illinois. Its seen here leading LBU51B as i... (more)
Metra F59PHI 79 expresses west through Des Plaines with train 643.
With a huge crowd of railfans, CP 6068 leads CP 198 past Norma on the UP Milwaukee Sub. No one expected CP's SD40-2s to ever end up on an intermodal train again in this area- until today.
CP 198 dives under Interstate 90 with a pair of CP SD40-2s up front. After everyone raced out of Norma, many stopped at nearby Mount Prospect Road to catch the train again before heading towards... (more)
Before a fire gutted the tower in 2005, De Val Tower directed traffic on the CNW Harvard Sub, CNW New Line Sub and the SOO Line.
A Bensenville bound freight crosses the "temporary" bridge across US Highway 14.
The Soo Line freight has left its Schiller Park Yard and is crossing the CNW Harvard Subdivision.
UP 1158, in its original Cotton Belt paint scheme, leads the LPR49 local south through Des Plaines.
BCOL 4617 leads CN S751 northbound past CP O' Hare.
UP SD40N 1950 leads a grain train west under the signal bridge at Seeger. ATS has since been retired, and pilot units are no longer required here.
Southbound Waukegan local sweeps around the corner at Norma on its way to Bryn Mawr.
The last CP Olympic Locomotive rounds the bend in Des Plaines on a sunny morning.
Patched Cotton Belt GP60 1158 leads a local south through Des Plaines.
Train 286 sweeps the curve with two GE products.
A duo of UP GP60s lead the 6am local south through Des Plaines.