Passing the big grain elevator in Chenoa, the pair of Cotton Belts have clear sailing for the remaining 25 miles of their trip back to Bloomington.

The pair of GP60's head south out of Pontiac, preparing to take the siding up ahead to allow the southbound Texas Eagle to pass.

So this happened....HLCX SD40-2R #6341, still in SP paint, leads a loaded CSX coal train bound for Taft,FL.

A pair of patched Southern Pacific AC locomotives leads a coal train south at Miles Road on the UP Chester Sub.

UP 6359 & UP 6415 leads a loaded coal south near Columbia on former Missouri Pacific's now Union Pacific's Chester Sub. First I've ever seen from one of these units, UP 6359 had oscillating ditch ... (more)

Four Patched Southern Pacific C44AC's bring loaded frac sand train, MADMCS towards Mason City. With a large number of former SP AC4400's being assigned to sand service in Wisconsin, a consist like... (more)

This southbound coal train is passing over the bridge at Fountain, Illinois. This is the double track UP Chester Sub south of St. Louis.

Autos head north through Carpenteria on their way to Tracy, CA.

KYLE Limon turn approaching Limon

A patched SP unit leads a Pt. Stockton, CA to Bowie Mine, CO out of the Feather River Canyon at Massack.

The oil cans make a daylight climb around the horseshoe curve, up the cuesta grade. Twice this year, i've been treated to former SP power bookending this classic coastline train.

Some former Espee power sits in Slo, ready to reattach to it's train after releasing a string of cars.

It's been a bad day. The conductor on loaded UP coal train CNATS rides back to the 100+ hopper cars that he lost just a few moments ago. This former SP unit was the trailing unit on ... (more)

Union Pacific's Skyline, Utah to Cora, Illinois coal train glides east along the still waters of Becks Hot Springs in Salt Lake City. The UP 6322 was built the SP 299 in July 1995.