$690,000 and 15 years later, Southern 401 sits quietly in the maintenance shops at the Monticello Railway Museum after it's first year in excursion service.

CP 8732 leads a solid consist of hoppers over the Cal-Sag Channel, and across the Canadian National tracks as it passes through Blue Island.

The EMD logo on the "new" trucks of IC 6071 still shows as a testament to the first SD40 ever manufactured.

Former Southern Pacific SD45 No. 7444 has found a new home on the Illinois Railnet, where it currently waits for some work and an assignment in unfamiliar territory. Here, it sits idling in the sh... (more)

HBR 5008, ex-BN 7285, and HBR 5009 shove sand hoppers back and forth beneath the dramatic plumes of steam at the Wedron Silica Plant on a cold December night.

NS 5647 leads a rail train through Spring City as it progresses along the rathole.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief has just departed Chicago Union Station, and is now making it's way through the spaghetti track at CP Lumber.

Amtrak's Illini wastes no time as it speeds through the Illinois Central town of Ashkum.

Nashville and Eastern 579, an ex-BNSF B40-8W, sits silently in front of the historic Imperial Hotel in Monterey, Tennessee. It and sister unit 574 are here for a ceremony that took place earlier i... (more)

Metra 108 leads an outbound scoot past tower B-17, a living relic of the Milwaukee Road.

After attending a ceremony celebrating the beginning of a fundraiser to build a depot in the small town of Monterey, two ex-BNSF B40-8W's, now lettered for the Nashville and Eastern, sit on a sidi... (more)

Metra 611, one of the last two operating F40C's on Metra's roster, pushes east with an afternoon rush hour train.

Wabash 1189, the last F7A ever built, pulls one of the Monticello Railway Museum's last regularly scheduled excursion trains of 2011 into downtown Monticello, with RP.net contributor Michael Polk ... (more)

Wabash 1189 idles at the Nelson Crossing depot at the Monticello Railway Museum, as passengers board the final scheduled run into town for the 2011 operating season. The train will run tonight for... (more)

UP 9448 leads a good amount of power south along the Milwaukee Subdivision as it nears the end of it's trip.