Amtrak 500, a B32-8WH, kicks up some snow as it leads train 338 through Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.

Metra 173 leads an outbound UP North train into downtown Evanston on a cold February afternoon.

A Metra F59PHI hits a snow drift as it leads an outbound through Grayslake, Illinois.

On a cold January morning, WAMX 4223 heads south through Devil’s Lake State Park with a short train.

GTW 4920 leads the Lakefront Local east through CP 502 after switching on Chicago’s South Side.

WAMX 4183 crosses the 0.3 mile long bridge over the Wisconsin River in Merrimac, Wisconsin.

WAMX 4183, Wisconsin & Southern’s 30th anniversary unit, leads a westbound train through Devil’s Lake State Park on a cold and foggy January afternoon.

HLCX 6313, an SD40-2 on lease to the Wisconsin & Southern, sits as two WSOR jobs switch in Madison Yard on a cold January morning.

IHB 1523, an SW1500, leads the 196 Job across the diamonds at Hohman during a heavy snowstorm.

Great Lakes Central’s OSTN passes through “The Trench” in Downtown Howell with a GP38-2 in the lead.

The cabs of three locomotives await final disposal after they were cut up at NRE Silvis. NRE has been scrapping locomotives lately as they prepare to close their facility in Silvis.

The Byron Hill helper set, consisting of two Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motors, meets an intermodal as they shove a southbound mixed freight up the hill.

A pair of Bessemer & Lake Erie SD40T-3s shove S750 passed County Road B in Byron, Wisconsin during the seasons first major snowfall.

One of South Chicago & Indiana Harbor’s SW1500s shoves 4 coil cars and a caboose into ArcelorMittal in Whiting, Indiana.

NS 1085 passes through a thick cloud of steam let off from one of the many industries along Norfolk Southern’s Chicago Line in Whiting.