A inbound train from Aurora arrives Chicago Union Station, as another train passes through the wash rack on its way to the yard.

A really useful engine indeed! Thomas poses for a picture with his larger friend, the Little River 110. Little River 110 takes on water after a day of pulling the Santa Express. Thomas was gratefu... (more)

The second to last outbound train to Elgin streaks under the position light signal bridge at Racine Ave.

Amtrak's Westbound Capitol Limited crosses the Indiana/Ohio state line, with the sun welcoming the final day of August.

Z151-08 Crosses the Grand River on its approach to the wye. after it continues along the wye it will arrive into CSX Wyoming Yard.

A Red Line train to 95th speeds past Armitage on the express tracks. The train will shortly descend into the subway to traverse downtown.

On a warm late August day the crew of 23T left the door open for a ventilation.

Q349 Cumberland, MD to East St. Louis, IL cruises west along the Monongahela River past downtown. The view afforded by taking the Incline up Mount Washington is worth the $5 roundtrip.

A loaded CSX coke train flies across the open fields of Northern Indiana near Milford Jct.

NS 7581 "rolls" through Rolling Prairie with a UPS train past the town's elevator.

Having just joined the Grand Trunk at CP Gord, Train 350 slows for its next station stop. If you look behind the train the Michigan line curves of the Right toward Kalamazoo. The Grand Trunk conti... (more)

NS 9584 leads a mixed freight down the Marion Branch past a position light signal which I have been told will start to be replaced some time in the future.

Blast from the past! A Joliet bound Rock Island Line train heads south through 18th Street, lead by the "Don Orseno" Rock Island unit. Taken from a hotel about half a mile away you can a... (more)

Q365 turns south at Deshler with a brand new Central California Traction Company engine in tow.

NS 881 rounds the curve at Michigan Ave. Yard in East Chicago. The empty coal train will take the NS Kankakee Line to Streator, IL and join home rails west.