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.
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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.
January 18, 2020 – Canadian National Ethanol Train CSX K445 heads over the Red River as it approaches Adams, Tennessee, with CN 5654 leading the way, as it heads south on the Henderson Subdivision.
February 8, 2020 – BNSF 6365 & CN 2126 lead a northbound empty coal train, 7,400ft (135 car), with BNSF 5997 as the trailing DPU. Here it approaches the KY 1245 overpass at the cut just north of Rockport, Kentucky on the Paducah and Louisville Railway.
January 30, 2020 – Indiana Railroad (INRD) 3803 and 3806 power the Palestine Utility train 1 (PAUT-1), as it makes a dropoff and pickup at the Rain Carbon Inc. plant behind the Marathon Refinery in Robinson, Illinois on the INRD Indianapolis Subdivision.