Ess-curving across the Des Plaines River and Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, another BNSF westbound intermodal makes its way to the west coast with more double stacked containers for market.

Rolling nicely down Ash Hill, a WBD stacker swiftly curves into Ludlow at sunset.

Bound for Canalport Intermodal Yard, UP's haulage rights train from El Paso, TX rolls into Chicagoland on tracks of the BNSF in west suburban Western Springs.

Running 8 hours and 16 minutes late out of their Glenview, IL. station stop, Amtrak #8 dashes through the Control Point at Morton Grove, IL. and out of the darkness, hell bent for Chicago's Union ... (more)

The 7AM tac. job nears Hwy. 1 at Murphy City for a trip to the dock at Taconite Harbor. Even back then, it was a special treat to see the '6 packs' of solid F's leading the moves.

2 stablemates slumber in their "room" overnight in BNSF's downtown coach yard.

After setting some cars and their rear engine off at Lafayette, NS 17K blasts past the quiet elevator at West Point, westbound for Decatur, IL.

Under the expert running of engineer Sonny Sellers, the IVNKC heads out of the greater St. Louis area, bound for Kansas City.

High winds and dust clouds swirling, the Apache gets out of Holbrook, AZ with a measly 3 cars, cruising thru the red rocks of the region.

Parallel moves are going on as Amtrak #338 heads for the city on Main #2 as some Metra equipment heads for Chicago Union Station on Main #3.

Heading back west for loads, P&L's empties out of Kosmosdale head out of town.

After picking up 20 cars at Serena, the Illinois Railway's train for the BNSF at Eola storms out of town on this former CB&Q branch to Ottawa, Illinois.

Loaded coke from Minnesota waits the overnight at Galewood Yard, waiting for a fresh crew to forward the train to CSX at Rockwell for furtherance south. Special thanks to Chris Guss for the lighti... (more)

With a trainload of empties for ethanol plants in the Minnesota and Dakota Prairies, #637 crosses out of the yard for the C&M Sub. Division at Tower B-17. NOTE: Taken on Metra Property with permis... (more)

A Blue and Gold eases its' train through the brick canyons of the south side of Milwaukee.