A pair of GEs take an autorack train around the bend out of Savanna, and along the Great Mississippi River. Not many places in Illinois with as great of scenery as Savanna.

After spending all day loading this triple digit grain train, the 400 job gets going into Oakland an hour after sunrise. Todays Neoga bound grainer has a quartet of DREI’s finest, with the first... (more)

Metra’s semi-new former Amtrak F59PHi’s cruises under Tower B-12 with an outbound set.

In November of 2020, MRL released the second of two special wrapped locomotives to honor those related with the company, with the first being veterans, and the latter being essential workers. And ... (more)

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)

One of CSXs new(ish) ST70AHs take a phosphate train up the New Line, destined for the North Dakota / Minnesota area.

A pair of GTW GPs race north with CNs L535. Here is the pair as they exit Lemont township and head towards CN Glenn Yard.

A pair of IHB “Baseball Geep”s power NA11 into Bensenville, seen here under Tower B12. Tons of track construction contaminate this area, as seen here, all a part of creating B13, as well as gi... (more)

On a very windy spring afternoon, the oh so popular 476 job crawls west out of Sugar Grove after waiting for a stack train. Todays local features a Hudson Bay SD50, headed to the Illinois Railnet ... (more)

Warm Weather sweeps Chicagoland, and we take a trip to Naperville, IL where our first train is a Duo if Metra PHM Rebuilds!

The famous MRL Day Gas train can be seen here winding along the Clark Fork river halfway between Perma, MT & Dixon, MT.

A very windy afternoon, a 6 pack of EMDs fly over the Des Plaines River with the 105 local.

The Chicago metropolitan area is known for having multiple fake springs, interrupted by freak winter weather. So to the surprise of nobody in the area, a freak blizzard swept across Chicago and Mi... (more)

On a crisp Saturday afternoon, Amtrak's Phase II Heritage Unit coasts west, approaching naperville for a station stop. Here is the CZ ducking under the Yackley Bridge.

A pair of CP ECOs traverse the Mississippi River into Iowa on a very humid afternoon.