On a normal occasion, CN’s Kirk Yard - Glenn Yard Local runs during the nighttime hours. Instead they got a very late start, and got held up at many places for hours, which made for some well-li... (more)

Two of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago‘s SW1’s shove the empties they just brought back from the dumping fields in McCook into in the loader at their homebase in... (more)

SIBI screams up the hill past Briggs Street with the Rock Island Heritage unit leading another IAIS ES44AC.

CSX 3194 brings out many crowds as it leads UP UEXCDG on the UP Geneva Subdivision, seen here heading west through La Fox.

IBCX 815 rests away waiting for a crew to pick it up outside of Hanna on a windy fall afternoon with a few cars for the CSX Interchange.

IC 1025 and 1027 lead L509 south on the CN Illinois River Subdivision with cars for Equistar and Aux Sable.

CN L515 departs Markham Yard with two IC SD70s, 1011 and 1032, GTW GP9R 4619, CN GP40-2LW 9515, IC SD40-3 6250 and CN SD60 5434. Seen here ducking under the IC era signal bridge in Flossmoor.

Q198 crosses the DuPage River in Plainfield with the Wisconsin Central heritage locomotive, after preforming a rolling meet with a northbound M343 at CP Field just to the north.

A squall line of early morning severe thunderstorms has just passed through the region, as KCS M258 heads south just outside of Roodhouse, IL just before sunrise with a KCS SD70ACe leading two gev... (more)

CN 3069, the Wisconsin Central Heritage Unit and a GECX T4 Demo lead a B790 for the Indiana Harbor Belt as they cross Echo Lake.

The UP Troy Grove Job arrives at it’s destination of Troy Grove as they prepare to head under the I-39/US-51 overpass heading into town. With not much options left for photos in the chase, this ... (more)

KBSR 706 and 704 take grain empties south through Donovan.

L509 crawls over the DuPage River on the approach to CP River where they will hop onto the River Line with a pair of IC SD70’s.

Temperatures rapidly drop below 0° and windchills much colder while Amtrak’s southbound Texas Eagle does all of trackspeed past the Lockport depot during a snowstorm that brought in a major col... (more)

JNLC 5 and SLSF 1630 both get servicing during the Steam Into The Fall night photo shoot at the Illinois Railway Museum.