The IRM puts on a good show of what Chicago looked like back in the 50s & 60s with the 1-50 cars and the Electroliner on display at the 50th Ave depot.

Gateway Rail Services rebuilt this ex-VIA Rail RDC into a Track Geometry Car for CN. Here, it is seen passing JB Tower on the ex-EJE just ten days after the takeover.

The Indiana Southern is seen departing the AES Petersburg Generating Station for Lynnville Mine on a beautiful summer morning. The company has recently announced it plans to be coal free by 2025, ... (more)

Southbound KBS train to Danville passes by the Tate & Lyle elevator at Darrow.

The Deseret Power Railway is seen at the Deserado Mine loadout with all four E60C's. Todays train departed a little on the later side at 11am, but it worked out nicely for the westbound chase to t... (more)

A five car UP executive train made quite the excursion around the Chicagoland area today. Here it is headed over the St. Charles Air Line as it gets ready to head south on the CN. Im not sure wher... (more)

Extra 2006 west makes an appearance on 11th Street in Michigan City as a band of heavy lake effect snow stirs up blizzard like conditions behind them. In just a few moments the entire area was a w... (more)

Hulcher crews begin rerailing the dump cars for the Metropolitan District of Greater Chicago after picking a switch the day prior. I would expect to see the SW1s working over the next few weeks...

As a Arcelor Mittal plant switcher brings a loaded coil train out to the Lakefront Yard, the eastbound bottle train is seen arriving from the Riverdale Plant with a high hood GP38-2.

Green Mountain RS1 #405 is seen sitting outside the roundhouse at Walpole.

CB&Q 504 spends the night on the main after being hand washed for Diesel Days.

Two of the Apache Railway C424's roll past MP 5 after picking making a pickup from the BNSF at Holbrook. Six cars are Pig Farm siding, plus another 30 cars or so for storage around Snowflake. Seem... (more)

The Nebraska Zephyr rolls through downtown Moline on a rainy Sunday morning.

The A-B-B-B-A five pack puts together a sixteen car train for tunnel siding on the dock.

Built in Oct 1946, the former EMD SW1 demo unit #700 (which became MJRY #33), waits its fate with the scrapper after being stripped by vandals while sitting inside the roundhouse for years after o... (more)