The North Outside Industry job, better known as NOSI, makes its way south across the diamonds with the former Illinois Central at Hawthorne. The train consists of cars from Charter Steel and Best ... (more)

On the final day of March, CN L535 (Oil Local out of Glenn Yard) goes about its switching work at Rowell Chemical in Willow Springs. Leading the way is Illinois Central GP40R #3108, wearing deaths... (more)

The late evening sun casts a warm glow on a collection of goodies at CN's Woodcrest Shops. We have a GMD GMD1u, a CN GP9RM, a CN GP38-2W and a BLE tunnel motor altogether. It's no surprise seeing ... (more)

On a cloudy St. Patrick's Day 2021, the luck of the Irish was with us as a Cascade green GP39E led the way of the Batavia Local. It's seen slowly making its way through Aurora, bound for Eola Yard... (more)

After dumping 13 cars, #3 makes its way to the mainline to prepare its runaround of the train. Closing in on its 69th year of service, #3 has been handling the brunt of the work for the past month... (more)

As BRC's "NOSI" job slowly rolls up to the red signal at 31st Street Interlocking with MP15AC #151 leading, CSX train Y121 prepares to cross over with a CSX GP40-2 in charge. NOSI recent... (more)

With a CSX SD70MAC and a CN Canadian cab Dash 9 for power, M337 awaits a new crew at the plant in Riverside. A recrew would show up about a half hour later and take the train west.

SD40-2 #1755, wearing sharp Santa Fe blue and yellow paint, prepares its departure from Eola Yard with the R CHI476. The first six cars would be set out in Rochelle and the string of sand cars wou... (more)

With quite the unexpected leader in charge, BNSF train R CHI476 hustles west into Shabbona, about to pass under Route 30. SD40-2 1755 was built in 1981 as the ATSF 5187. Today, it still wears shar... (more)

A spotless DC to AC AC44C6M makes its way over the Grand Calumet River during the final moments of sunlight. Shortly after this photo, the train would begin its slow journey into IHB's Gibson Yard... (more)

With a train bound for the Burlington Junction Railway in Montgomery, Cascade green 2740 and H4 3188 make way down the elevated trackage of the Chicago Subdivision in downtown Aurora, IL.

Shortly after passing under the Indiana Harbor Belt mainlines, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago makes an afternoon run with 7 loads for the fields. With SW1 #3 leadin... (more)

A Mittal painted SW1500 makes moves through the Cleveland Cliffs' Indiana Harbor mill. The train consists of empty steel slabs.

A bottle train slowly makes its way into IHB's Lakefront Yard with an NS GP38-2 in charge. I’ve said it before, but photos don’t do justice for the size of Cleveland Cliffs’ (formerly ArcelorMitta... (more)

In December of 2020, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc purchased ArcelorMittal's US operations for 1.4 billion. Not much has changed except for some signage being removed from the property. It's business as us... (more)