Some 15 miles north of Dayton, OH, rests the quiet town of Tipp City along the historic, and popular to rail enthusiasts, CSX Toledo Subdivision. The line known for its elderly color position ligh... (more)

Seen high above downtown Lemont, one of the few remaining active ATSF painted GP60s rounds through town with a long cut of manifest cars for GM yard outside Chicago.

Seen from above the Clybourn Metra station on the northwest side of downtown Chicago, Metra’s CNW inspired locomotive rounds into the station stop with a UP-NW trainset in tow.

Painted to commemorate the state of Illinois, this Rock Island line outbound is powered by the one and only 402. Captured here at Tinley Park’s 80th ave station amidst a thin layer of Canadian w... (more)

Towards the latter half of the BNSFs line Metra rush, one of the few blue F40s that BNSF utilizes hauls through Highlands with its first station stop being Downers Grove. Word on the street, is th... (more)

Metra rush is underway for the Union Pacific West line, as Metra’s Chicago & Northwestern commemorative locomotive heads the first rush outbound of the evening. Seen here ducking under the forme... (more)

About an hour or so after sunrise, stacks & racks from Tacoma, WA, fly through Mazon awaking the town. Todays train features a handful of GE products, the lead motor being in the H1 scheme.

Summer temperatures spread out across Chicagoland, as BNSF’s last active “smurf” locomotive rumbles over the Des Plaines river in Lemont. Recently reactivated after BNSF ridded their rails o... (more)

Its June 2022, on a quiet morning high above Skyline Trestle, the silence is expunged by the iconic sounds of EMDs screaming through the rigid mountainside. 4404 and another Ace combine with a Jim... (more)

After hitting a tree in southern Kentucky, Amtraks City of New Orleans train pushes back into Chicago’s Union Station after being rescued by a CN SD40-2W. Meeting them going south, another Amtra... (more)

With a train loaded for Detroit, a pair of BN painted 70macs scream through the northern illinois countryside, seen here having just departed Mendota.

On a hazy, yet sunny, Tuesday evening in downtown Chicago… a Wyoming coal train crawls under 18th street with loads for NS in Detroit. With railfans from all over the area in hot pursuit, this i... (more)

After receiving a shiny new coat of paint in NS’s Altoona Shops out in Pennsylvania, the new & improved Reading Heritage unit glides over the Fox River in Geneva, IL. This was its first run on f... (more)

On a sunny morning in downtown Gary, a South Shore BN coal crawls around town with a trio of CSS power at the helm. Due to the double-track construction project, from here to the power plant, will... (more)

After a setback on the BNs side, a late string of coal loads crawls uphill out of Chicago towards the Cleveland Cliffs power plant in Burns Harbor, Indiana. Todays train has a pair of SD38s sandwi... (more)