The former Santa Fe station at Streator remains in use as an Amtrak stop. The structure is a classic Santa Fe piece of architecture.

After a line of snowstorms blanketed northern Illinois the previous day, UPs “Spirit of the Union Pacific” Military schemed locomotive head ends the UP trackage rights Z train on the BNSF Sout... (more)

ATSF 139 leads an A-A-B-B consist of Superfleet scheme GP60Ms/GP60Bs on a 199 train, Santa Fe's hottest westbound trailer train between Chicago and Los Angeles. It's crossing the Vermillion River ... (more)

ATSF 2712 leads a blue trio of vintage Geeps on an eastbound freight at Streator, IL. At this date it was still possible to get all blue/yellow consists on Santa Fe's mainline across Illinois, but... (more)

Santa Fe’s 199 train flies over the Vermillion River Bridge as it leave Streator, Illinois, in its wake at 4:58 p.m. on June 26, 1993. Powering the train destined for Richmond, California, is AT... (more)

Santa Fe GP50 3842 leads a trio of Superfleet GP60Ms and a GP60B west on the south side of Streator with a 199 high priority Intermodal train made up mostly if not entirely of TOFC. Santa Fe was n... (more)

ATSF 2351 leads a manifest freight over the Vermilion River bridge at Streator, IL on its way west from Chicago to Galesburg and points west.

Led by Santa Fe GE B23-7 No. 6406, Santa Fe’s 102 train, a Chicago to Ft. Madison long distance local, switches the yard at Streator, Illinois, on a sunny April 25, 1987.

Three month old ATSF 824 & mate slow an eastbound run-through freight at their junction with Conrail on Stretor's south side. The train operated between Argentine Yard, Kansas City to Conrail's El... (more)

Hot 991
Led by a trio of new GE B40-8Ws, Santa Fe’s hot 991 train hurries toward Chicago approaching Streator, Illinois, on May 2, 1992.

On a crystal clear evening, BNSFs famed 105 local rockets out of Streator with an ABA set of EMDs, with the leader being a former Burlington Northern GP30.

Santa Fe’s 102 train switches the yard at Streator, Illinois, rumbling past the station that once served the railroad’s stately fleet of passenger trains, and now provides the same function fo... (more)

When you think of BN and/or Streator IL, you likely think 'big-time' railroading. You would not be wrong, but there was another side to Streator and the former CB&Q, as seen in this photo of Q's ... (more)

Fast times on the BNSF transcon. Two westbounds pass the Streator, Illinois station.

After chasing the B63 local to Hennepin and back to Streator, he got held up for a line of very strong thunderstorms. After the storms passed, the dispatcher let B63 proceed through town, however... (more)