After a wait at Pine Junction, westbound CSXT Q191-20 is on the move as it makes its way towards the destination of Global 4 in Joliet. UP 6706 leads the way, which is the last patched CNW unit on... (more)

With slug 478 up front, IHB SW1500 1522 is working hard as it powers a Harbor transfer from Blue Island Yard to UP's Yard Center. UP SD40N 1651 is along for the ride and will be dropped upon arriv... (more)

On a sunny morning, M371 heads south through Monee with a BC Rail C40-8M leading the way to Champaign.

Snow in April? Sure, why not! M CHIGAL heads west by the Ransom grain elevator with a quad of thundering EMD's, led by a Cascade green GP39-2.

An empty coal train awaits a new crew at Western Avenue. A veteran SD70MAC leads the charge.

A nice trio of CP EMD's hustle east through Lake Forest on the former Milwaukee Road. They're in charge of train 286, which runs from St. Paul to Bensenville. The lead unit is of former Delaware &... (more)

L535 works Rowell Chemical with a pair of GT's as a trucker and a biker wait to cross.

A bluebird leaser and IHB's only SD38-2 lead the way of NA5 at La Grange, passing under the old BN and Ogden Avenue.

Switching duties at the east end of Clyde are handled by two units that are most definitely familiar with this yard. GP38-2 2286 is in charge of a string of piggybacks, while SD60M 1461 handles st... (more)

Westbound coal empties roll through Lemont with an all EMD lash-up, the leader being an SD70MAC in Executive paint.

Cincinnati originated train Q350 is in the process of making a setout at Barr Yard with a crazy lash-up. Leading the way is KCS SD70ACe 4023, followed by BC Rail C44-9WL 4642. Both units are one o... (more)

106 grain loads are headed west on the Gilman Sub with a classic deathstar SD40-3 in charge. A short time later, the crew would shove to the Cargill plant in town.

A CN barn smokes it up as it leads Q191 on the approach to CP Frank.

An Illinois Central deathstar SD40-3 is in charge of 106 grain empties, as the crew shoves down the Gilman Sub to the Cargill plant for loading. Certainly not what I expected to be shooting this m... (more)

Right on home rails, a Santa Fe Bluebonnet GP50 is in the lead of a classic EMD trio on the Chilli Sub, as westbound train L CHI105 accelerates out of Joliet.