Summer temperatures spread out across Chicagoland, as BNSF’s last active “smurf” locomotive rumbles over the Des Plaines river in Lemont. Recently reactivated after BNSF ridded their rails o... (more)
Home rail Santa Fe GP60 169 leads BNSF 1740, 1436 and 2042 east through Lemont. The nice lash-up is in charge of a late running M GALCHI bound for GM Yard in Hodgkins.
It’s about 02:30 in the morning as CN L545, the “Millsdale Oil Local” switches out Seneca in Lemont with a CN GP40-2W and a IC GP38-2 before heading back to Glenn Yard and call it a night af... (more)
Burlington Northern on the Santa Fe. It’s a gloomy and rainy evening in the southwest suburbs as L-CHI105 gets underway while they traverse over the Des Planes River on the old Santa Fe coming i... (more)
After a light layer of snow blanketed the Chicagoland area the night before, BNSFs Galesburg to Chicago manifest traverses the Southern Transcon with a former Santa Fe GP50 up front. The blue & ye... (more)