Hot on the heels of a UP vehicle train, westbound containers from Chicago led by a trio of BNSF Dash 9's snake around Houlihan's Curve on their way up and out of the Illinois River Valley. This we... (more)

An attractive looking string of Canadian National power, along with a solo Dash 8, sit all alone in an empty set of yard tracks parallel to the Gateway Rail Services Inc. facility in Madison, IL. ... (more)

With two locomotives up front, two in the middle, and two on the rear, a MASSIVE 548 axle Logistics Park Chicago (LPC) to Los Angeles Harbor, CA container train works its way westbound through Wes... (more)

After being held up in a siding south of town for a good hour or so, Memphis, Tennessee to Toronto, Ontario manifest train CN M39671-15 wastes no time as it accelerates north out of Tolono on the ... (more)

A southbound vehicle train eases through Madison, IL on TRRA rails as it passes under a signal bridge that guards the entrance to SH Interlocking, just behind me. The train features an H2 Dash 9 a... (more)

Having just departed the station on-time at Galesburg, Amtrak train #381, the Quincy, IL bound "Carl Sandburg", splits the signals here at MP 168.0X Saluda on BNSF's Brookfield Subdvisio... (more)

Led by good-looking duo of UP SD60M's, an Alton & Southern transfer job (ALS 103) departs Union Pacific's 12th Street Yard, located in heart of downtown St. Louis, headed for the A&S Gateway Yard ... (more)

A Union Pacific GE AC45CCTE shoves at the rear of this City of Industry, CA to Bedford Park, IL (CSXT) trackage rights Intermodal Z on BNSF's high-speed transcon route.

An Alton & Southern "Odyssey Set", consisting of GP38-2 #2001 and a pair of SW1500's, bring ALS job 301, north, through Washington Park, IL and under the busy Interstate 64. This move is... (more)

High priority doublestacks from Marion, AR to Oakland, CA hustle their way north on UP's busy Chester Subdivision behind a pair of General Electric units, one of them being a less than common CSXT... (more)

On a miserably hot late July day, a long Englewood Yard (Houston), TX to El Paso, TX manifest train scoots down Union Pacific's Del Rio Subdivision through the downtown San Antonio area with a gen... (more)

As the early winter sun heads quickly towards the horizon, BNSF's high-priority Morrisville, PA (NS) - Los Angeles, CA intermodal Z-train thunders through the small Illinois community of Edelstein... (more)

With the sun just about to dip below the horizon, a long southbound loaded grain train from Sterling, IL's Rock River Grain Terminal and bound for Pittsburg, TX eases down Union Pacific's seldom-u... (more)

Having just exited the Barstow Subdivision, a southbound Keewatin, MN to Granite City, IL loaded taconite pellet train (U-KEEMAD) snakes its way through downtown Galesburg on the Mendota Subdivisi... (more)

Led by a pair of evolution series GE units, southbound loaded taconite pellet train U-KEEMAD splits the signals at MP 168.0X Saluda on the BNSF's single-tracked Brookfield Subdivision. This train ... (more)