A high priority freight train from Blytheville, AR, to Galesburg, IL, is slowly pulling out of the West Quincy Yard. The train here crosses the Quincy Bay Bridge as they begin the last segment of ... (more)

The Terminal's duo of SD60Is head light east across the bridge in Venice. These two former CSX units are the Terminal's first widecab units.

A pair of Santa Fe GE locomotives power a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack track crosses the Vermillion River at South Streator, Illinois, on the afternoon of April 26, 1997.

M GALCHI rolls east across the Kankakee River, a little west of Wilmington, IL. After being tied down in the support yard west of here all night, we were treated to an unusual early afternoon run.... (more)

The UP Proviso to Pine Bluff manifest heads over Kickapoo Creek just west of Peoria. The UP (CN&W) low line into Peoria and BNSF (CB&Q) Peoria Sub travel under the far side of the bridge. The Mi... (more)

9168/9311/9117 North at La Salle, Il. crossing the Illinois River. Terry Norton Photo

On an unseasonably warm late autumn afternoon, LPJ05 races over the Fox River with a GP60, GP15, and a AC44. For the most part, engines without CNW Cab Signaling cant lead on the UP Geneva Sub. UP... (more)

OMLX GP38-3 #1019 leads a string of empty BNSF coal cars to Ottawa, as some fall colors hang on in mid October. Heading north across a little bridge just south of town, this is the last of the coa... (more)

The last one? For years, the Illinois Railway Streator Branch has been home to a significant number of stored BNSF coal cars. Lately, the IR has slowly been removing the cars to send back to the B... (more)

CSXT 754 leads an intermodal through Blue Island Illinois on a cold morning.

IHB 4020 and 1512 cross the Little Calumet River as they make their shove move into Blue Island Yard, utilizing the West Yard Lead. #4020 is one of three GP40-2LW's purchased from Metro East Indus... (more)

Inaugural runs for the Chicago and Northwestern heritage locomotive, here the train heads outbound over I90 / I 94, with the METX 402 trailing. Of note, is the Chicago and Northwestern heralds th... (more)

After trekking through downtown Chicago, M337 heads over the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. The train is a mile or two out from Hawthorne Yard where the train will be recrewed and head west to I... (more)

R CHI424 crosses the Mississippi River and the BNSF's Crescent Bridge, on its way to Barstow, IL. A GP39M and a GP50 make for a nice set of 4-axle EMD's.