Two IC repainted SD40s cruise into the sunset with a string of ballast cars for loading in Wisconsin. Seen ducking under the Metra Southwest service on the south side of New Lenox.
Weekend train approaches New Lenox Station on the Rock Island District.
As Chicagoland preps for the Christmas weekend, IAIS provides a Christmas present of their own. A GP38 & the 516 heritage locomotive on the morning eastbound into Blue Island, seen here passing th... (more)
NS 6705 leads the Manhattan local East past the New Lenox Laraway Road Depot.
Metra 207 and 184 lead an outbound train into New Lenox Station. Due to track work on the CN Matteson Sub, Metra trains terminate in New Lenox and the equipment moves to the yard.
BICB heads west through New Lenox for Council Bluffs with the usual solo gevo up front, in the last minutes of sunlight.
With the diamonds at CP Canal (CN-IHB crossing) being replaced, Amtrak's Texas Eagle #21 out of Chicago was detoured down Metra's Rock Island District. It's seen making its way west through New Le... (more)
Metra 113 heads west across Gougar Rd with MP36PH-3S 424 leading the way for Joliet, while doing every bit of trackspeed plowing its way through a plow line from the previous nights snowstorm whic... (more)
The race is on! IAIS BICB (Blue Island, Illinois - Council Bluffs, Iowa) notches up along US Route 30 through 35.5 after waiting for Metra’s to clear.
IAIS 513, the Rock Island heritage ES44AC and a regular IAIS ES44AC scream up the hill past Marley Road on a July summer morning.
IAIS’s SIBI ducks under the former Wabash with one of the two Iowa Interstate heritage locomotives on point.
A IAIS geep leads BICB west through New Lenox.
Iowa 501 leads a daylight BICB west through New Lenox.
An inbound Amtrak train to the city rolls through New Lenox during detours resulting from construction work taking place on the Heritage Corridor.