The Des Moines to Gateway manifest is just coming off the bridge over the Mackinaw River at MP 96.75.

An empty coal drag from the CN creeps down the St Charles Air Line and onto the BNSF. Soon CN will route these coal trains over the ex-EJE from Griffith to Eola.

Union Pacific train MPRPB heads South on the Union Pacific Peoria Subdivision. The train is seen here crossing the Mackinaw River Bridge at Mackinaw Valley Park Rd., Just South of South Pekin, IL ... (more)

The southbound Saluki roars down the CN/IC through Riverdale, right on time.

The on-time 'Chief is back up to speed after departing Galesburg and nears the crossovers known as "Yost" in the ATSF timetable, leaving no doubt that the high target mounted atop the cantilever a... (more)

With Peoria & Western Railway down to one operating FP9, the Canton Cannonball has made a rare trip all the way west to meet the Keokuk Junction job out of Keokuk, at Laharpe, Illinois. With siste... (more)

The Illinois Railnet LaSalle to Zearing Job is shown crawling across one of several wooden trestles, this one over Spring Creek at Ladd, Illinois on its way to interchange with the BNSF at Zearing... (more)

Fall color in the Shawnee National Forest is vivid behind this NB empty coal train.

"The Manny" comes over to Illinois to deliver to Alton & Southern.

15E had been stuck behind 145 over around Marshfield because 145 was having air problems. So we thought it'd be a while before they came, since it already had been a while, and we're gone 2 secon... (more)

IC&E's Huron train detours on the Indiana Harbor Belt to reach BRC's huge Clearing Yard. The train is heading compass south across the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal on the southwest side of the ... (more)

Amtrak 160 crosses the Kankakee River with the inbound Lincoln Service 300.

A CTA pink line train heads for grade level on the way to its final stop in Cicero.

Union Pacific special rolls along in the Mackinaw River bottoms, south of South Pekin, Illinois on its way to a crew change. The Wednesday leg of UP's engineering special saw the train run later o... (more)