After a brief visit in Chicago for National Train Day, this handsome PRR passenger set heads east for home, and is about to cross the CNIC at 21st Street.
Awaiting an 0200 recrew, CP train 891 slumbers the evening away at Galewood with the reflection of red LED signals on its' nose. Looks are deceiving, as this is really a coke movement for the Indi... (more)
Passing as it had many years ago through Griffith, ex Erie Lackawanna SDP45 3655 hits the GTW diamonds at this forlorn NW Indiana hotspot. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Heading out of Chicago, Metra engineer Rob Tellin pulls #2249 at dusk, bound for Elgin.
As CN's M338 slowly moves south, Metra's hourly move to their South Chicago branch speeds by.
Running on the TRRA's Merchant's Sub., a BNSF ore load heads south for Birmingham, Alabama.
The 7AM tac. job drags down the hill to the dock at Taconite Harbor in the cuts at Zeke. The sound of brakes setting & squealing was deafening!
Heading east for the Shops with 2 cars down 10th Street.
Heading out of town, Metra #2719 passes age-old sentinels and a manned interlocking tower. Elgin here we come! NOTE: Taken on Metra property with permission.
With 3 EMD's all still looking great in Conrail Quality Paint, 30R nears Cerro Gordo. Eventually this train will terminate in Bloomington/Normal, IL on the former NKP.
A WBD with mismatched doors meets an eastbound fertilizer empty at High St. in Aurora, IL.
In a scene from the past, "Dresser OPR" Don Knudtson hoops up orders to engineer Max Medlin on one of many photo runbys put on by S&B Productions on a sunny day in May. Don is no strange... (more)
Coming off CSX's Indianapolis sub is a ghostly-looking Q670.
Racing into the quickly fading sun, more coal empties retreat for the Powder River Basin.
A BNSF EBD Multi-level heads past an old cemetery on the outskirts of Lee, IL. An old graffiti-laden ATSF SD40-2 trails.
