It's a cold and snowy night, less than a week before Christmas as 2131 makes its pull to clear the signal at Fox Lake West, before shoving into the coach yard. Vets unit #120 provides the power.

UP 5673 sits outside of the TRRA yard in Madison with a manifest.

Bound for New Jersey, a CSX tank train rumbles east along UPs Geneva subdivision, with the ONECSX sd70mac up front… seen here ducking under the C&NW coal tower in Dekalb.

The hotshot stack train for St Louis, with a pair of YN2 ac44s, splits the NYC era trilight or “G-Head” signals at CP 172.

With a fresh crew shuttled up to UP interchange from Barr, CSXs B779 cuts through one of the more iconic locations in Chicagoland.

TRRA SD60 4002 pulls 101 out of the East end of Madison Yard for headroom.

UP's Rochelle Local prepares to shove east back onto the mainline after interchanging cars with the City of Rochelle (BJRY) railroad. The crew will return to Global III, just west of town.

Uncertain Future. The CN 102 and CN 103 sit in shrink wrap behind the Woodcrest shops. An era of change for the CN Business fleet. Now primarily powered by the CN 3309. The E-9's were donated. Th... (more)

The Big Boy crossing the Kankakee River in Momence, Illinois. This would be my final photo of the day for my first ever chase of the Big Boy.

The Big Boy heading down the IHB mainline in LaGrange as an EB BNSF stack train passes above on the Racetrack.

Canadian National L53691 is racing out of the city passing through Kensington and the Interlocking Control Tower with CN 1019 wearing Illinois Central Paint. The 536 job works between Glenn and Ki... (more)

Former LV, then Conrail SW8, now MM 780 sits at Maryland Pig Iron in East Chicago. The Lehigh stripes still show through the now fading Conrail blue; despite the shape it’s in, supposedly is sti... (more)

MACH #505 shoves hard with train 2146 as it's just out of the flag stop at Ingleside.

Train 2131 highballs past Emerald Shores Lake in Ingleside, IL.

The Big Boy making its waited appearance in the small town of Grant Park, Illinois, on the Villa Grove Sub. Many people gathered along the tracks to see this historic steam engine pass by.