Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train rolls across the swing bridge spanning the Mississippi River at Sabula, IA, having just completed its stop in Savanna and now on its way to the next show in Davenp... (more)

Canadian Pacific's Holiday Train glides through Mount Carroll, IL headed for its next stop in Savanna. The train is traversing CP's Chicago Subdivision for the first time since 2018, having taken ... (more)

Illinois Terminal interurban car #101 rolls past a semaphore signal and back to the IRM grounds after a run out on the mainline during the 2022 Showcase Weekend.

A couple of rapid transit cars roll back towards the museum and past a semaphore signal during IRM's 2022 Showcase Weekend.

IRM's Commonwealth Edison electric locomotive #4 leads the photo freight past a semaphore during IRM's 2022 Showcase Weekend.

Eastbound BNSF grain train G-CRKBRC rolls through Chana, IL on BNSF's Aurora Subdivision led by an ex-Seaboard SD40-2 and two C40-8Ws.

CN 3069, the Wisconsin Central heritage unit, leads CN train A491 past the former EJ&E depot in Lake Zurich, IL.

CSX 9014 (C40-9W), still in YN2 paint, is wasting no time as it speeds through Nelson, IL with a westbound ethanol train, as the first hints of sunlight start to peak out on the horizon on this co... (more)

KCS 4009, a Kansas City Southern SD70ACe dubbed the "Saluting KCS Heroes" unit, leads an empty UP grain train bound for Evansville, WI past the Rochelle Railroad Park. The unit, per KCS,... (more)

In the town of Hampshire, IL is a restored Firestone gas station, which I figured could make a good foreground to frame CP 183, which on this day sported KCS "Grey Ghost" 4569, with a KC... (more)

A 5+ hour late Empire Builder slowly rolls out of the station in Glenview, IL, with two of the Phase VI ALC-42 Charger locomotives leading the way.

IC 1011, an Illinois Central SD70 still painted in the black "Death Star" paint scheme, leads CN intermodal Q116 south through Barrington, IL.

CP 183, a stack train originating in Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico to Bensenville, IL, rolls through Leaf River, IL with two KCSM units in charge. The train is testing transit times between the two af... (more)

Amtrak 130, the railroad's 40th Anniversary "Phase II" locomotive, races towards Chicago with the eastbound Carl Sandburg, as Metra's vintage CB&Q Fairview Ave depot looks on.

Metra 405, the Milwaukee Road heritage unit, leads an outbound train under the old Pennsylvania Railroad signal bridge at CP Morgan in Chicago, sans the old signal heads.