After waiting out the Metra rush, CP 528 clears the old EJ&E diamond and passes the venerable Rondout Tower. Bringing up the rear as a DPU is the Kansas City Southern veterans unit.

Engineer Josh Dulak brings T1 down to Rondout, to await a meet with T4. WSOR movements on Metra territory are almost exclusively at night. Due to an overnight work block in Round Lake that closed ... (more)

CP GP20C-ECO 2246 leads the 2023 CPKC Holiday Train West past historic Rondout Tower.

I was glad to see #7 have a combo set to show the new and old era back in 2022 I am not at all excited for the new locomotives, but as with the railroad, nothing stays the same. Speaking of which,... (more)

SOO 1003 passes a rather large crowd at Rondout as it makes its was to Western Ave Yard in Chicago.

NIRC 11 works a tie replacement job at Rondout Illinois

Northbound Amtrak's Hiawatha passes thru Rondout on the way to Milwaukee. Train 339 departed Chicago Station 5:08pm and will make the 86 miles journey to Milwaukee by 18:45. The line to the right... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder rumbles thru Rondout on the CP C&M Sub. Work continues here for Metra to extend a long siding from the C&M Sub to the Fox Lake Sub. New signals will be going in here, and t... (more)

We don't get around the long distance trains too much, so seeing the new long distance chargers has been rare. I was glad to see #7 have a combo set to show the new and old era. I am not at all ex... (more)

Metra MP36PH-3S No. 426 leads a westbound Metra commuter train past the tower at Rondout, Illinois, on Soo Line’s former Milwaukee Road main line and is clattering over the EJ&E, that just becam... (more)

A pair of EMD rebuilds, a GP20C-ECO and SD40-3, leads CP 2-286 under the searchlights at Rondout, IL.

Numerous of people line the bike path bridge in Rondout on a early Sunday morning as SOO 1003 heads towards Janesville at Rondout Tower.

Roaring thru Rondout....... Soo Line 6025 leads a freight thru Rondout, IL in September of 1991.

WSOR T001 is seen taking the Fox Lake cutoff and splitting the searchlights at Rondout. This is a layered flash image on a 1" second exposure.

On a freezing January evening and with its scheduled arrival into Chicago gradually getting later, the eastbound Empire Builder with a Fakebonnet rescue locomotive slams through Rondout as the eve... (more)