Taking the Houlihan's Curve, a killer lash-up of CEFX and KCS de Mexico power drags E-CGLBTM0, coal loads from Lansing, MI to Black Thunder Mine, WY, up and out of the Illinois River Valley. This ... (more)

Heading around Houlihan's Curve, Intermodal train F-KG4LB1 09Z begins it's westbound attack up Edelstein Hill and out of the Illinois River Valley. The train is lead by a trio of Union Pacific un... (more)

A pair of Iowa Interstate GP38-2's hustle local freight BUSW-08, north, up the Peoria Subdivision, former 2nd Subdivision, past the tiny town of Rome, Illinois. Several rumors have been going arou... (more)

Led by a pair of BNSF SD70MAC's, southbound Kansas City Light & Power (KCLX) coal empties snake their way down through the rolling hills of northeastern Wyoming on BNSF's Orin Subdivision near Don... (more)

A northbound empty NORX coal train headed for loading at the Caballo Rojo Mine snakes it way around a curve while climbing a short grade south of Bill, WY. The train is led by an older generation ... (more)

A KCS "Southern Belle" ES44AC hustles an extra section of trackage rights autorack train F-AGBML around Houlihan's Curve on BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision. This was my first ever time shooting a K... (more)

Northbound CAEG coal empties race up the roller coaster profile of BNSF's Orin Subdivision just south of Bill headed back to the mines for another load of Powder River Basin coal. Because of thund... (more)

After receiving fuel, a fresh crew and waiting here on a northbound freight, southbound taconite loads thunder through Saluda, IL on BNSF's Brookfield Subdivision with a couple nice EMD's on the p... (more)

A very colorful consist hustles Chicago, IL to Stockton, CA doublestack train Q-CHISTO around Houlihan's Curve on the BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision. Two BNSF Dash 9's, one still in Warbonnet pain... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound 380 train aka the "Illinois Zephyr" gets the go ahead from the conductor and pulls out of the Galesburg Amtrak station headed for Chicago. The train in a few feet will... (more)

A good looking duo of ex-BN executive SD70MAC's drag E-CXTBTM0 09A, Detroit Edison coal empties, upgrade around Houlihan's Curve. Coal trains are beginning to show up more and more on this line wh... (more)

Snaking right around the Houlihans Curve, a westbound loaded "Earthworm" grain train starts its attack on Edelstein Hill led by three BNSF ES44DC's and one on the rear. These train's get... (more)

A westbound Logistics Park, IL to Long Beach, CA cross-country stack train begins its uphill assault on Edelstein Hill by rounding the famed Houlihan’s Curve outside of Chillicothe.

Corwith Yard, IL to Stockton, CA stacks cruise westbound across BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision in the golden late evening light. Quite the consist was on this train tonight and it included an NS E... (more)

A pair of CSXT General Electric widecabs drag a long westbound vehicle train out of the Illinois River valley and under a pair of still standing ATSF searchlight signal bridges. Foreign power has ... (more)