Viewed from the building tops of Downtown Elmhurst, Union Pacific’s DRGW Heritage Unit, UP SD70ACe #1989 departs Proviso Yard (Global 2) in Northlake beginning its journey for Lathrop, Californi... (more)

On a Thanksgiving morning, a trio of heritage 4 scheme EMD’s prepare to make a headroom move with 80 cars in tow, symboled as the 105 yard job at BNSF’s Logistics Park Chicago (LPC).

On a Thanksgiving morning, traffic on transcontinental highway (or I-80) is very light as the only train that takes the CN Illinois River Line, L509 crosses over the Interstate as it comes into Mi... (more)

The sun sets in the background as a tuxedo lashup takes a grain train for the CSX interchange in Union Mills, seen here thundering into La Crosse with IBCX 5115, 5093 and 815.

One of the 4 IAIS SD38-2’s on point IAIS 151, IAIS ES44AC 513 (Rock Island Heritage Unit) and IAIS GP38-2 711 wait for a crew on point of the Blue Island - CSX Barr Yard transfer (IAIS BICSX) a... (more)

IHB 4022 crawls around 5mph as it shoves the pulldown/Yard hump back into Blue Island Yard, blocking other road freights and hogging the mainline from continuing their journey.

After the yard pulldown blocked up CP Harvey, BP2 finally departs Blue Island Yard after being held for over an hour. Here they are at Seeley Ave/CP Harvey with IHB 4017 and 2163 in charge.

Amtrak’s southbound Texas Eagle runs ahead of schedule as it thunders past the historic Lockport depot.

L521 heads through the curve around Downtown Griffith with a pair of IC SD70’s, and the leader still wearing its Illinois Central colors.

2 NS SD40-2’s, 3517 and 3326 take charge of B09, as they round the curve at Michigan Avenue on the IHB Mainline before dropping their train off for the Cleveland Cliffs steel mill.

2 NS SD40-2’s, 3517 and 3326 take charge of B09, as they hop off the NS Chicago Line and onto the IHB at the steel mill surrounded CP 502. The historic Inland Steel Office Building can be seen o... (more)

Metra 917 finishes up their trip to Joliet as they cross UD Tower, and prepare to shove onto the connection into the Rock Island Coach Yard. Metra 409 can be seen in the distance arriving into Jol... (more)

KBSR 701 and 704 crawl through the heart of Kankakee as they proceed to come off the interchange from the CN with 60 cars to take back towards home base in Iroquois. KBSR 705 and 706 prepare to sh... (more)

With KBSR 701 and 704 at the head end, KBSR 705 and 706 shove 9 tankers for the CN interchange in Kankakee over the Kankakee River in Aroma Park.

The Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday North Outside Industry Job (NOSI) spots cars at Charter Steel on a extremely hot summer afternoon with a BRC GP38-2 before switching Best Foods and Home Products on t... (more)