It is the summer of 1982. A local freight near Spokane is lead by BN 1744 (ex NP 306), followed by BN 1764 (ex. GN 703), BN 1839 (ex, GN 687) and another geep.

The FRV spin-off of CNW lines in the Fox Valley of Wisconsin didn't have many C-C units and here are three of them preparing to make a set-out on train GBPRA at North Fond du Lac. SD24 2401 leads ... (more)

Coal loads with MAC's 9466,9620,9671 are crawling along at 10mph as they work up Walker Hill. Not long before this 5-6 SD40-2 or C30-7/U30C's would have been powering this train.

Iowa Interstate's daily Blue Island to Council Bluff's Westbound manifest train is led by class engine #500 as it heads toward Iowa City.

A northbound CNIC train had just rolled through town, and now its Indiana Southern's turn to cross the diamonds as the local heads east.

With an Illinois Central southbound freight waiting, a Toledo, Peoria and Western westbound crosses the diamonds at Gilman, Illinois, on May 5, 1990. The TP&W in this era was repainting some of it... (more)

Westbound empty coal train passing through Kinsley, Kansas, on the Santa Fe's La Junta Subdivision in late fall 1992. The train's two warbonnet C40-8W locomotives are leading empty hoppers back to... (more)

The northbound City of New Orleans rolls out of Gilman enroute to 9am arrival at Union Station. The train is seen here dwarfed by the coaling towers on the north end of Gilman still left along the... (more)

A pair of IC SD70's southbound thru Gilman on this Toronto to Memphis freight train. Mornings on the CN north of Champaign can be busy if trains are running late southbound. Usually couple south a... (more)

"Moscow on the Cedar" for the Iowa version.

A northbound, NS trackage rights train approaches Gilman, as viewed from Interstate 57. It's odd when you have some "car trouble" and everything seems to start functioning properly after you get y... (more)

westbound departing UP Cheyenne, WY yard

The City of New Orleans is blasting by the former depot in Gilman on their way North to Chicago on a Sunday morning in rural Illinois.

Montana may be Big Sky country but I think Wyoming would be a close second, especially around the Powder River basin. BN MAC's 9494,9823,9425 head coal east around a long sweeping curve near Coal ... (more)

Soo 2550,408,727 and DIT Ex D&H, Ex MN, shark nose 1205 bound for the E&LS highball past Gilchrist with the 109 cars of train 911. The 2550 was an ex passenger geep and has recently lost its gyral... (more)