On the final approach to Eola yard, the crew of the 452 job flags one of the two unguarded crossings on the north side of Aurora.

The evening Seattle stack flies along the Mississippi River with four of BNs attention grabbing GEs up front… seen here from the Mississippi Palisades State Park.

After having just departed the State/Lake station above its namesake intersection, a CTA Green Line train scurries west splitting the canyon of buildings in downtown Chicago.

With almost all of America in chaos, one finds peace with a Historic Relic, in BNSF 3167, a Bluebonnet GP50, leading a train over the Des Plaines River on a warm, near 100F degree, afternoon.

With a heat wave running from coast to coast, the Lehigh Gorge felt especially toasty, as Reading & Northerns prized NRFF wayfreight cruises through Jim Thorpe with one of the two Fast Freight pai... (more)

Iowa Interstates famous Chinese “QJ” 2-10-2 is seen here crossing the Government Bridge from Iowa into Illinois for the final time on its boiler ticket. This would mark the conclusion of the f... (more)

A pair of SD40Ns & an AC44 build an Intermodal train at the west end of G3 in Rochelle, IL

Running a modified schedule, Metra’s Milwaukee Road Commemorative Unit coasts under Tower B12 in Franklin Park, IL.

MRLs Day Gas train descends the steep grade through Nagos, MT, on final approach to Missoula.

Bound for the west coast, 3 EMDs along with a GE scream under the former CA&E Bridge in Wheaton, IL.

After hitting a tree in southern Kentucky, Amtraks City of New Orleans train pushes back into Chicago’s Union Station after being rescued by a CN SD40-2W. Meeting them going south, another Amtra... (more)

On an unseasonably warm late autumn afternoon, LPJ05 races over the Fox River with a GP60, GP15, and a AC44. For the most part, engines without CNW Cab Signaling cant lead on the UP Geneva Sub. UP... (more)

The wind gusts as an extra GALCHI cruises towards Chicago with a BN SD40 up front. A nice accommodation to this old, and presumably abandoned, grain elevator.

Arguably a train-of-the-year candidate for Chicagoland, a former L&N GP38-2 races west by KN tower in Walkerton, with a unit train for the CN. This only being possible after the C40-8W used for PT... (more)

Not sure on the railroad, but an SW switcher rests in the Hoffman Transportation plant in Channahon, attached to tank loads.