Running light through the yard to get another cut of intermodal cars.
The 2017 Happy Holiday Railway train has unloaded its passengers on the final run of the night. The wide aperture gives the image a model train like appearance.
HIAWATHA service rolls inbound to Chicago.
Class SD70 leads southward.
Broadside pose of the locomotive, while the children meet Santa in "his" caboose.
Hiawatha service train rolls through the curve east of MP 46.
Racing west to Milwaukee, I don't know why number boards are such an issue with these NPCU's.
In predawn light, northbound Amtrak splits the semaphores and the shorty blade drops in the ghostly image.
The colors of the empire have made it all the way west err, I meant north. The Waukegan local leaves the yard on its way south.
Working the east end...
Twilight gives way to a starlit night. The Little Dipper is visible over the cab in this 20 second exposure.
And to think... these used to be "normal, every day" trains... now only at IRM.
Crossing over from 1 to 2 to get on the Fox Lake sub.
The 210 leans into the curve and up grade into the sweet light.
BN-3 continues its life at IRM.
