Saturday, May 2, 1981 finds the eastbound "Blackhawk" coming under the Winnebago Street viaduct as it slows for its station stop in Rockford, IL. P30CH 717 has a pair of Amcoaches and a single Amc... (more)

Union Pacific 6378 began life as the SP 311, but on this cold Saturday morning she's just the rear dpu on an eastbound coal load heading toward Chicago on the ex-C&NW mainline across northern Illi... (more)

What could have been finer on Sunday, May 12, 1985 to have this set of power on Milwaukee Road train #228 heading west from Bensenville Yard across northern Illinois? A pair of Milwaukee Road GP40... (more)

New Gen-Set switcher enroute to the KCS as it sits on the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern at Davis Junction, IL. Good thing it is heading toward a warmer climate--it was 14 below zero out there tonight.

As I recall, I didn't feel like going to work on this sunny day in mid-April 1985, so I called in sick. I spent some time on the west side of Genoa, IL waiting for Milwaukee Road train #226 to com... (more)

One of BNSF's ex-Santa Fe GP40Xs is at Rochelle, IL waiting for service on one of the locals that originates here.

The engineer of Milwaukee Road train #226 has his trio of GP40s wound up good on this beautiful Saturday afternoon. The dust is kicking up from those trailing hi-cube autoparts boxcars bound for K... (more)

The Milwaukee Road steel gang is headed west to perform some needed trackwork on the Chicago-Kansas City mainline around Ottumwa, IA in the spring of 1984. On this beautiful Sunday afternoon MILW ... (more)

The Keokuk Junction's Peoria & Western Railway job was stopped for a time while BNSF train H-GALMAD made a pickup south of town. The BNSF 5111 has backed onto his train on in the distance on the l... (more)

The Keokuk Junction's Peoria & Western FP9s only made a one-way move on Monday, August 4, 2008 from Good Hope toward Mapleton, IL. They swapped cars with the Keokuk Job at Good Hope around 3 pm, s... (more)

Passenger train on the Illinois Railway Museum mainline heads west past the semaphore behind the diesel shop. C&NW F7A 411 leads a pair of bilevel coaches by the semaphore signal.

The city of Davis Junction, IL is having their Junction Days festival this weekend--bands, carnival rides, fried foods and fireworks! The local power happened to be parked on the east leg of the w... (more)

Slivers of cold winter light slice through the exhaust-filled Bush trainshed at the C&NW's Madison Street Station. On the left is F7A #416, just in on train #712 from Crystal Lake. To the right is... (more)

By paying for the cab ride through the Royal Gorge the engineer may let you drop down for a few quick pictures while the train makes a quick stop at the hanging bridge. The passengers are not allo... (more)

Paying a few extra dollars for the cab ride through the Royal Gorge was worth it on this beautiful Sunday morning. From the cab of F7 402 the view of the curving mainline and the Arkansas River wa... (more)