KCS 4811 leads an empty tank train into Bensenville Yard on a beautiful fall afternoon.

KCS 4811 leads an empty tank train into Bensenville Yard on a beautiful fall afternoon.

IHB 4012 leads a manifest West through Franklin Park. .

IHB 4012 leads a manifest West through Franklin Park. .

Units tied down at CP Bensenville Yard waiting to take the next stack train out.

METX 94 leads an outbound scoot into Franklin Park, as seen from the engineer's seat of METX 98, a F59PH-3. Franklin Park's annual 'Railroad Day' allows rail enthusiasts to go up into the cab of m... (more)

Busy times at Franklin Park
Just east of Soo Line’s sprawling, former Milwaukee Road Bensenville Yard, an eastbound Soo Line freight meets a westbound Grand Trunk Western train at Fra... (more)

After waiting for Bensenville to make up their mind, CP 287 finally heads west through Franklin Park.

A former Southern Pacific GP40-2 leads into Franklin Park.

CP 8781 sits at the Franklin Park Belmont Metra station, waiting for a CSX crew to take CP 142 east as CSX I166. The 8781 wears a special Hapag-Lloyd livery, celebrating CP's intermodal service to... (more)

CP 8781 makes its first appearance freshly painted in a special Hapag-Lloyd livery to commemorate CP's intermodal service to the Port of St. John. The locomotive is preparing to lead CP 142 (CSX I... (more)

Metra’s Milwaukee Road heritage unit pulls into Franklin Park 5 minutes late in the fall sunshine.

The 2000 hp PRI/EMD GP20C-ECO locomotives feature a lot of new components: frame, fuel tank, long hood, snoot nose, cab, 8-710G3A prime mover and AC alternator/rectifier – with Canadian Pacific... (more)

CP G47 heads out of Bensenville Yard and up the Elgin Sub through Franklin Park and Tower B-12. Not a whole lot of what CP did in the Chicago area in 2008 still exists between their re-aquisition ... (more)

SD60M No 2295 preps to build G41 as a heavy snow falls.