February 22, 2020 – BNSF 6347 leads an east bound autorack train through Blue Island Junction on the Indiana Harbor Belt line at Blue Island, Illinois.
From the web: One of the most fascinating rail hotspots anywhere, it’s hard to know where to begin a description of it. Let’s start by noting that Broadway crosses the entire maze approximately in the middle. Entering from the southeast is the do… See More
February 22, 2020 – Metra engine 418 crosses over the CSX Elsdon Subdivision as it heads along the Metra Joliet Sub District at Blue Island, Illinois. I spent a good part of the morning and afternoon here at Blue Island today and ever caught a single train on the Elsdon Subdivision, but some days are like that!
February 20, 2020 – Two Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Track Inspectors work their way along the maze of tracks at the intersection of the L at Tower 18 in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The safety of rail traffic everywhere falls on the maintenance of way crews as they inspect the miles of tracks in all kinds of weather!
February 24, 2020 – Northbound BNSF 5208 pulls out onto the Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL) main after a three way meet between a southbound loaded coal, the afternoon local and its load of military containers at the PAL Yard in Princeton, Kentucky.
February 20, 2020 – Metra’s Milwaukee Road heritage Unit 405 waits to depart from Union Station in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
According to a Metra January 25, 2019 press release: The Milwaukee Road locomotive is the second locomotive to be painted in heritage colors after an earlier one painted in a color scheme of the old Rock Island Line. The locomotives have been recently rebuilt and getting a new coat of paint – either in the regular Metra scheme or in heritage colors.
February 20, 2020 – The engineer on Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Loop Train 403 keeps a watchful eye on the track ahead as he navigates his train around a curve as he makes his seemingly never ending loop through the canyons of downtown Chicago, Illinois.
February 22, 2020 – Indiana Harbor Belt 2920 backs into the Blue Island Rail Yard at Riverdale, IL as IHB 2160 works it’s own job during a cold winters morning as IHB caboose 54 sits waiting to be the shoving platform on its next assignment.
According to the IHB Website: The Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad is the largest switch carrier in the U.S. with 54 miles of mainline track (24 miles of which i… See More
February 20, 2020 – Metra 179 pulls train #919 southbound commuter train out of downtown Chicago, Illinois past the Amtrak facility as it approaches the 18th street overpass, as dusk falls over the city, on its way to Joliet, Illinois on the Metra Heritage Corridor.
February 20, 2020 – A Metra Express train passes another Metra local as they approach the Gladstone Park station on the UP-NW Line as they head northwest out of Chicago, Illinois at dusk.
February 17, 2020 – CSXT 884 leads, CSXT 391 (Spirit of Dante), 3030, 124, 829 and one other unidentified unit, lead CSX Q025-17 (Bedford Park, IL – Jacksonville, FL) as it passes the curve leading to the Romney CP at Nortonville, Ky as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision with its hot intermodal train.
February 8, 2020 – The engineer from Paducah, Ky, on BNSF 6353, steps down from a northbound empty coal train, at Caneyville, Kentucky as he and the conductor prepare to turn the train over to a Louisville Crew for the rest of the trip to Louisville on the Paducah and Louisville Railway.
February 8, 2020 – BNSF 6353 & CN 2126 lead a northbound empty coal train, 7,400ft (135 car), with BNSF 5997 as the trailing DPU. Here it makes it’s way north through the valley approaching Caneyville, Kentucky where it will meet up with a fresh crew to take the train on to Louisville.
January 23, 2020 – Union Pacific 7760 leads a intermodal as heads westbound on CSX’s St. Louis Subdivision at Terre Haute, Indiana.
February 7, 2020 – Loaded Grain train, CSX Q503-06, being led by CSXT 754, pulls past the south end of Kelly siding, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision at Kelly, Ky.
February 7, 2020 – CSXT 754 pulls CSX Q503-06 pulls past the signals at the north end of Kelly siding as it works its way south through the early morning blowing snow on the Henderson Subdivision at Kelly, Kentucky.
January 30, 2020 – Canadian National (CN) A432, passes CN A408, as it heads south at at Effingham, Illinois on CN’s Champaign Subdivision.
January 18, 2020 – Canadian National 5654 as it leads the way on CSX K445 nosing it’s way over onto main 1 at the north end of Pembroke at Hopkinsville, Ky, with my 600mm, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision with a heavy ethanol train.
January 23, 2020 – CSX Q501 makes its way south under the old L&N coaling tower at Sullivan, Indiana on the CSX CE&D Subdivision with MVPX 1298, an ex-Canadian Pacific Switcher as the trailing unit.
February 5, 2020 – CSXT 429, 413, 5285, NS 9866, 7524, CSX 3198 and 562 lead CSX V112 past the signals at the south end of Breton siding at Breton, Kentucky as it leads a combined empty ethanol and grain train north on the Henderson Subdivision.
February 7, 2020 – The conductor on local CSX J732 manually throws the switch at the north end of Latham siding at Hopkinsville, Ky as they attempt to get it to lockup after a light overnight snowfall so they can continue their trip north to Madisonville, Ky on the Henderson Subdivision.