Amtrak 63 on train 303 departing the new station of Bloomington-Normal.

Metra 183 rounding one of the few corners and grades on the BN racetrack.

Amtrak's Phase III heritage unit leads the inbound Quincy train thru Lisle. This photo would have looked a bit nicer a few years ago when searchlights protected West Lisle.

The outbound California Zephyr outruns a BNSF auto train west of the Naperville station.

One of the former EMD SD70ACe demos is in charge of CN train M345 at Junction City Wis.

Inbound Metra train splits a pair of Milwaukee searchlight signals. These are getting extremely rare.

The [i]Southwest Chief[/i]begins its journey to Los Angeles, passing under the ex IC / CCP Freeport Subdivision.

The Southern Heritage Unit leads an empty bulk oil train to the oil fields of North Dakota.

Coal train working in Glenwood Springs Colorado. When I took this shot, I did not imagine I would spend the rest of the morning chasing it thru the hills out Colorado.

Most of the BART "subway" is elevated or at ground level. The concrete bridges are somehow earthquake resistant.

When most people think of 3rd rail subways, they think of cities, not the rolling hills of the San Fransisco Bay Area.

SQS 1000 showing off its CNW heritage, with a former Milwaukee / SOO GP40 and an ex-US Army GP7 behind.

Sitting pretty at LIRC's shop in Jeffersonville. I was stopped on the frontage road of I-65 to take this photo, and had a Clark County Sheriff pull up behind me. "Just taking pictures?" he asked. ... (more)

This is the end - the last run of CTA's 2200 series cars in revenue service. It was very appropriate of CTA to assemble 8 of them for a final, farewell, ceremonial run.

Amtrak 170 pulls its heart out trying to maintain track speed with an 8 car Texas Beagle headed for St. Louis and beyond.