This summer, I had the privilege to witness UP 4014, Union Pacific's restored "Big Boy" 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive, ply the rails of the UP mainline once again, this time leading the "... (more)

BNSF 1706 idles away while on local job R-CHI476 in Rochelle, IL, with no work to be done on this Saturday afternoon. This is thankfully one of the increasingly fewer SD40-2s on the BNSF roster th... (more)

A westbound Z train for St. Paul speeds through Rochelle about to cross over the UP Geneva Sub diamond.

BNSF ES44DC 7736 prepares to cross the UP Geneva Sub at Rochelle leading a manifest train towards BRC's Clearing Yard in Chicago.

UP ZLTG2-18 gathers speed passing through Dement.

A Long Beach-Global 3 intermodal train pulls across the diamond at Rochelle using headroom to yard the train.

UP SD70ACe 8450 departs Rochelle slowly pulling out of the G3 intermodal facility with a train for the CSXT at Chicago.

Coal loads from the North Antelope Mine head east through Rochelle.

After worknig the industries east of Rochelle, UP GP40-2 1417 hustles a local back towards Sterling.

Autoracks from Milipitas, CA cross the BNSF Aurora Sub at Rochelle, IL.

BNSF's Rochelle local is eastbound on the Aurora Sub with a few boxcars from the Del Monte factory.

St. Paul - Chicago intermodal traffic heads east into Rochelle.

With 1 string of CWR left aboard, UP AC4400CW 6419 prepares to hammer the diamond at Rochelle with a Goldfield, IA - Chicago Yard Center, IL rail train.

UP ES44AC 5439 slowly pulls over the diamond at Rochelle departing Global 3 with a manifest for the NS at Ashland Avenue in Chicago.

Manifest traffic from North Platte, NE to BRC's Chicago Clearing, IL yard heads east through Dement behind a clean leader.