On the morning of April 24, 1988, an eastbound Santa Fe freight crosses the wide Mississippi River from Fort Madison, Iowa, into Illinois on an impressive multi-span deck and truss bridge built in... (more)

Freighter of BNSF Railway with Dash 9 locomotive No.4717 in front moves over Fox River and quickly through the BNSF racetrack, originally part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, throu... (more)

Downtown Aurora on the BNSF Chicago Sub is kind of a neat area. The trains scoot thru downtown on elevated trackage. A Monroe, MI, empty rolls pass CP 37 as it makes its way towards the Mendota Su... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train crosses the Illinois River over this substantial truss bridge at Chillicothe, Illinois, on the morning of April 30, 1988. This double track bridge, replacing... (more)

CN 3115, the BC Rail heritage unit, passes over Route 45 in Mundelein, Illinois on train M356. A few miles down the tracks, the train would turn onto the EJ&E mainline and head towards Joliet.

Over looking Yard Center we see a pair of UP RailPower RP20BD's working the south end of the yard on a beautiful day for flying.

Metra's CB&Q inspired #211 shoves a Saturday afternoon inbound across the Des Plaines River, as it closes in on its station stop at Riverside.

It's the train they call the City of New Orleans. Amtrak 59, The City of New Orleans, begins its journey out of Chicago IL on a beautiful windy city evening.

The old Santa Fe steel trestle at Media is dearly missed, but the new concrete and steel bridge is nonetheless a rather impressive structure nestled in the rolling hills of western Illinois. Here,... (more)

Lately, Class 1's in Illinois can't seem to catch a break. BNSF train S LACNSA didn't quite meet the requirements of the height restriction at the BRC bridge in Cicero. 40 cars suffered significan... (more)

IRs 104 job crawls over the Fox River inbetween Montgomery & Oswego, with a trio of SD40s.

NS D49 makes its departure from East Peoria. The background of this photo used to be Caterpillar's "J through X" manufacturing complex, but now is the "Levy District" shopping... (more)

During the golden hour Union Pacific Missouri Pacific Heritage Unit arrives in the St. Louis metropolitan area after a delay due to a vehicle stuck at a crossing in Central Illinois.

For years, rumors have been floating around that the coal fired, Midwestern Generating Station in Romeoville was going to be making a transition to natural gas. Most, if not all nearby plants have... (more)

A UP heavyweight ES44 leads a massive stack train south over a frozen Lake Moredock near Valmeyer, Illinois.