With all the replacement projects I'd read about on the internet, I had all but given up on seeing a classic ATSF cantilever style signal in my life time. I was very pleasantly surprised to find t... (more)

IHB switchers lugging a cut of doublestacks between yards.

A pair of Santa Fe Warbonnets pass under the classic Santa Fe signals at McCook.

A pair of GP-20's have just crossed the diamonds of the IHB as they head west.

WALLY is what I call this loco. Wally looks pretty tired and run down. What an environment. I hope this is not the future.

A pair of SD45-2's, U36C, and SD45 run this pig train fast through McCook.

This was the only way I ever got to see them, traded in, stripped and hours away from extinction.

Yes, I was feeling physically sick. There were were carcasses of some really great old units all over the place.

Soo Line GP-35 #723 along with a GP38-2 pull a transfer freight on the IHB at McCook crossing the ATSF diamonds. The freight is headed to Schiller Park.

IAIS 151 swings around the wye and onto the IHB Main, still operating on very foreign tracks on a rare detour route.

An extremely rare detour on the BNSF and IHB makes its way south on the IHB....FBAIMCI (An Iowa Interstate roadfreight that ran from Colona to Chicago via ex-BN and ATSF track) has just made it on... (more)

Atlantic Coast Line E3A 501 (ex-ACL 50) soaks up attention at the EMD 75th Anniversary Open House in McCook, Illinois, on September 21, 1997. (The EMD factory is often shown as being in La Grange... (more)

Three engines mingle at the LaGrange plant, former GM 90 and 92, now EMD 90 and 92, and an old EMD switcher. The SD90's were being load tested.

UP's Proviso to Yard Center transfer sits at McCook waiting to cross the BNSF. Consist was UP 3098, an SD40-2 snoot, UP 3024, a normal SD40-2, and UP 3036, the only patched CNW SD40-2 in the Zeto... (more)

The moon watches over this IHB searchlight guarding the crossing of the IHB and the BNSF Chilicothe Sub at McCook.