On a toasty summer afternoon, Amtrak’s Veterans paint P42 races south, passing the, once historic, now metra, depot in downtown Lemont.
With only a few minutes of sunlight left... NS 4000, nicknamed the “SonicBonnet” by railfans, cruises over the Des Plaines River with an intermodal bound for the west coast.
On a warm evening, the Galesburg to Chicago local makes its way over the Des Plaines River, running as a manifest rather then 104, due to today being a weekend.
On a warm evening, a whopping 10 Gevos round the bend in Lemont with a short intermodal for LPC in tow.
On a beautiful sunday evening, the GM to Galesburg Local / Manifest cruises over the Des Plaines River with a trio of SD60Ms... one of which still wears its green BN paint.
Running a modified schedule, Metra’s Milwaukee Road Commemorative Unit coasts under Tower B12 in Franklin Park, IL.
With Protests & Riots spread all over the city, Metra operated Sunday schedules on all lines throughout the week. For the MDW, that meant only utilizing 2 sets, and sure enough, 405 was one of sai... (more)
G41 derailed in CPs Bensenville Yard on the 3rd, so this caused YPRCP to not run for about a day or two. So on the 5th, an extra long YPRCP crawls under Tower B12 with a pair of UPs finest SD40Ns ... (more)
With almost all of America in chaos, one finds peace with a Historic Relic, in BNSF 3167, a Bluebonnet GP50, leading a train over the Des Plaines River on a warm, near 100F degree, afternoon.
Something that will probably never happen again... a CN Canadian Cab Dash 9 leads an NS Dash 9 on a detoured BNSF Coal Train through Naperville, IL.
One of Three active H2 SD60Ms lead the 457 job through Lisle with a former BN SD40 in tow. Nice to find this racing an outbound Metra.
A Metra Deadhead races through Lisle’s Metra Station in Downtown with a rebuilt PHM for power.
A former BN SD60M leads a trio of GPs through Romeoville with 105, after stopping outside Willow Springs for a Z train.
A pair of EMDs, an IC Deathstar SD70 & CN SD75I, lead 509 on 5/09
Still in Santa Fe Blue & Yellow, BNSF 1614 takes charge of CHIGAL as it cruises out of Lemont, and into Romeoville.
