The town of Warren shows off its heritage of the Stagecoach Trail on its water tower. The Trail is a historic route through northwest Illinois that connected Lena with Galena. The trail was a part... (more)

FXE 4697 roll's eastbound through Warren, IL on a rain soaked evening. Only had two minutes to setup for this shot.

UP 7510 sits stationary as it gets filled with grain while CN 8928 speeds past from the left while heading Westbound on the CN sub towards Warren, IL. on November 19, 2014.

IC 8404 leads four more EMD's in IC and Chicago Central Red across the hills of Northern Illinois east bound at Warren.

After meeting M33891 at Freeport, IL M33791 heads west towards Dubuque, IA.

After meeting M33891 at Freeport, IL M33791 heads west towards Dubuque, IA with CN 8876, CN 2715, IC 1039, GTW 5855.

The Ski Train finally got all the bugs worked out at Council Bluffs this week. Here the train is enroute to its new home in Canada. The train is passing thru Warren, which is 22 miles west of Free... (more)

A nice daylight catch on this stretch of railroad. Most of the CN trains run in the dark across Northern Illinois these days.

This empty ethanol train isnt doing near the work M338 just did 30 minutes ago when they busted thru this 1/2 mile, 6 foot deep drift. U703 is just doing alittle cleanup work in this drift as they... (more)

Regular Merchandise Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL.

Running long-hood forward, the Freeport switcher heads back towards Freeport after picking up 17 of 24 cars off of the Scales Mound siding left by M33891-16 the previous day.

Regular Merchandise Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL. (Canon EOS20D, 16-35mm f/2.8L USM)

Regular Merchandise Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL. (Canon EOS20D, 16-35mm f/2.8L IS USM)

Regular Freight Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL. (Canon EOS20D, 16-35mm f/2.8L USM)