From the Metra Congress Park station.

The small, heated Highlands Metra station serves as a nice warming hut in between trains during the winter.

A BN GP50L extended cab leads with a GP38-2 and five B40-8W's, headed to Galesburg after backing out of the yard in Hodgkins onto the main.

A pair of switchers at the Cargill Malt facility off the BNSF in Spiritwood.

Four units facing west approach Johnny Run Road outside Kinsman, IL.

BN express commuter train ... or power from the local job returning a bad passenger car.

An ex-Santa Fe GP60M hauling racks down the chilli sub.

Turning south off of the southwest connector past the tower in Dolton.

A pair of Norfolk Southern GP60 locomotives lead the way west over the UP diamond in Dwight.

Local power from the yard in Jamestown passes by one of the two massive concrete Peavey grain elevators in town.

A FWWR mixed freight heads south through Fort Worth. GP50 up front, followed by a GP38-2 and a quartet of SD40-2 power, one might be a -3. FWWR 2010, 2006, 2026, 2017, 2024, and 2028 in silver and... (more)

A Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern SD40-2 sits outside the locomotive maintenance shop in Rapid City.

A BNSF B40-8W leads the way past a section of bad track just outside Chicago on the Santa Fe mainline. That could explain the 40 MPH speed restriction signs in the area.

Local power in Rochelle, GP10 and GP30.

An ex-ATSF motor passes by a cantilever signal on the old Santa Fe main out of Chicago.