The headlight from an approaching Metra train illuminates the scene as NIRC 11 sits tied down at Fox Lake East. #11 is in charge of a work train, awaiting its call to duty on Monday morning.

The Belt Railway of Chicago's North Outside Industry job, known as NOSI, arrives at Best Foods in Cicero to make a delivery and a pickup of tank cars. BRC GP23ECO #234 is in charge, looking great ... (more)

BRC 231 holds at Austin Ave in Chicago with the first ever BRC Santa Train.

NIRC 11 works a tie replacement job at Rondout Illinois

BRC 232, 301 and 300 team up to shove a lengthy cut of cars through the massive Clearing Yard. The train is slowly working its way over the hump. The diesel house can be seen in the background.

The extremely short-lived Mon-Wed-Fri 100th St. local assignment shoves 31 cement hoppers up the BRC's South Chicago Industrial Lead, toward Commercial Avenue Yard. An unseasonably warm day and my... (more)

The RC operator stands on the front porch of GP23ECO BRC 230 as he works a pull down job at the Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard in Chicago, Illinois. BRC 230 was originally built as a GP40... (more)

On a sunny afternoon in the windy city, a pair of BNSF GP23ECO's shove a cut of cars into their Western Avenue Yard. Both units were built as ATSF GP38's in 1970 and look quite sharp in their H4 p... (more)

One os Metra's two new ECOs shoves a work train east through Franklin Park.

A pair of BNSF GP23ECO's shove back through Cicero Yard after spotting a string a intermodal cars while two coal trains pass by in the background. Both of these GP23ECO were originally built as Sa... (more)

A remote controlled Belt Railway of Chicago GP23ECO pulls a cut of auto parts boxcars as it works one of the flat switching leads on the eastern side of Clearing Yard. A consist of CSX and UP GEVO... (more)

A Belt Railway of Chicago yard crew uses an RC GP23ECO to work the east end of Clearing Yard.

The Belt Railway of Chicago (BRC) is know for being an operation that is rarely seen outside of their massive Clearing Yard, which makes is pretty difficult to get any kind of photos of their loco... (more)

A remote controlled Belt Railway of Chicago GP23ECO pulls a string of covered hoppers down one of the yard leads at the railroad's Clearing Yard. The locomotive operator can be seen to the left of... (more)

Two Belt Railway of Chicago jobs work one of the Clearing Yard hump bowls. BRC 237 is pulling a cut of cars out of the yard as 560 waits to shove in.