C&NW 411 sits quietly, staged for the next days operations at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Thick exhaust hangs in the air as the C&NW 411 pulls forward during a Illinois Railway Museum night shoot.

An impending thunderstorm has darkened a hot August evening as Santa Fe train 17, the westbound Super Chief, glides into Joliet Union Station past waiting passengers. With a five-unit lashup of F7... (more)

On a winter afternoon, the sound of EMD and Alco power hard at work fills the air as an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 lashup grinds up Williamsport Hill with an eastbound Western Maryland coal train. Four more ... (more)

Photographer unknown. Image scanned from a slide that was purchased at a Chicagoland train show in the mid 1970s. The scene appears to be from the early to mid 1960s era, but the state being Illin... (more)

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's F7(A) No. 814. Originally NC&StL #814, it later became L&N #821. In January 1965, it was rebuilt by ACL Waycross Shop and transferred to Clinchfield as their CR... (more)

The distinctly CNW nose bell shines with new paint above the Chicago & North Western logo on a restored F7A at the Illinois Railway Museum.

Locomotives:
CNW 411 F7A

The Golden Triangle train arrives at Mount Dora. Several days a week Orlando Northwestern operates passenger services between Eustis, Tavares and Mount Dora.

Hot traction motors meeting cold snow makes a burst of steam as an eastbound Penn Central freight enters snow-covered Selkirk Yard on the day after a major storm. The power is an F7/GP35/SD40 mix.

On the day after a major snowstorm, a westbound Penn Central freight slowly makes its way out of Selkirk Yard past some of the snow removal equipment that helped keep things open. A lashup of two ... (more)

RPCX 315 leads a special train for the Galveston Railroad Museum on its return trip after having traveled 125 miles north to Brenham, TX. The warbonnet painted F7A's aren't skipping a beat here as... (more)

Old meets new as RPCX 315, built in 1953, meets BNSF 7344, built in 2009. The warbonnet painted F7A's are owned by the Galveston Railroad Museum, and here are trailing on a special train run by th... (more)