BNSF 6789 leads a late-running IHBGAL west through Blue Island.

CSX SD60I 8732 leads IHBGAL west through Lockport.

A pair of classic ATSF locomotives (Bluebonnet SD40-2 and Warbonnet GP60M) highball around the curve at Ransom, with the westbound M-IHBGAL, bound for Galesburg. The birds took flight (top of phot... (more)

Warbonnet B40-8W 512 leads a westbound manifest along the Des Plaines River.

BN SD40-2 7910 and EMD SD60 9013 have cleared Joliet Union Station as the engineer puts the hammer down.

Three BN Geeps on a road freight (GP39-2 2702, GP38X 2155 and GP39V 2960) is a rare treat now these days!

BNSF C40-8W 821, a repainted Santa Fe Warbonnet, along with a BNSF Heritage 2 GEVO, highball M-IHBGAL through Coal City.

BNSF Heritage 1 GP38-2 2199, and a pair of BN Cascade green GP28M's highball westward through Coal City with M-IHBGAL.

A pair of bluebonnet SD40-2s lead by 6898 lead M-IHBGAL through Lockport.

EMD GP38-2 767 and a BNSF B40-8W lead M-IHBGAL through Lockport.

M-IHBGAL rolls through with a pair of BNSF predecessors (BN SD40-2 and a Santa Fe Warbonnet Dash 9). Cascade greens and Warbonnets can never get tiring!

EMDX 767 leads M-IHBGAL through Lockport, accompanied by a BNSF B40-8W.

My waiting pays off as the sun pops for the first time in a week!

Rare and well kept BNSF SD9 #6100 and a EMDX GP38-2 roll westbound through Lockport with M-IHBGAL. SD9s are very rare out of yard service.

It must have really been my day! The sun pops as this sweet rebuilt SD9 highballs westward through Lockport, accompanied by an EMDX GP38-2.