Power for the switching duties at the mostly quiet Blandin Paper Mill sits tucked inside a somewhat secure fenced area on mill property.
NS Road Slug 625 leads a local south through WR.
FURX 5514 reverses a DREI job from the CN yard back into its home yard.
A TRRA slug set reverses a train into Granite City Steel.
FTRL 1315 leads a local east down the street running out of the Budweiser brewery.
Union Pacific local switches Janesville Yard before heading to Evansville to pickup grain train.
Central Illinois Switcher heads to BNSF Ashland Yard with scrap steel loads. The 1206 was recently painted in Burlington inspired scheme.
Chicago Terminal crosses Fullerton Ave. with a car for Peerless Candy. The Chicago Terminal operated former Milwaukee/CP industrial trackage north and south from Goose Island on the near NW side ... (more)
CBFX SW1500 1594 leads the Cast Armour job west through Calumet.
IHB SW1500 1501 leads a local into Lakefront Yard.
Wearing some green for St. Patricks day, NS GP33ECO 4703 leads a local east through Hammond.
The NS local heads south through the Amtrak yard after switching Continental paper in Chicago.
BNSF 553 sits in Galesburg Yard, waiting to depart with a local.
The spiffy ex-Frisco GP38-2s - with a single car and caboose - lean in one direction as they pass through the super-elevated curve, while the power on UEL run-through coal train looks like it migh... (more)
Patched Cotton Belt GP60 1158 leads a local south through Des Plaines.
