Wild flowers are in bloom as the Proviso to Pine Bluff manifest heads south at Pottstown. I am taking this photo from the shoulder of Ill. Route 8 which climbs along a hill and then over the RR. ... (more)
The rear unit of a BNSF empty "Havana" coal train is about to clear the bridge over Kickapoo Creek, which not too many days before this photo, had water just about up to the rails.
Peoria & Western's "new" FP9s make their maiden freight run! Here they are shown on a Tazewell & Peoria yards-bound freight approaching Bridge Jct. The rails in the foreground are ADM industrial... (more)