The Monongahela heritage holds outside of Savanna pending a crew change and traffic ahead along the Mississippi River.

The weather is perfect as an eastbound stack train rolls right along the Mississippi River just outside of Savanna, Illinois on June 23, 2015.

It's a gorgeous late afternoon on June 23, 2015 at the Palisades as CSXT ES44AH No. 3029 leads this empty oil train out of Savanna, Illinois along the Mississippi River.

11 BNSF units on a light power move out of Cicero Yard in Chicago for Northtown Yard near Minneapolis work their way out of Savanna after a crew change, coasting alongside the shore of the Mississ... (more)

In the final minutes of daylight in 2014, an empty oil train powers through Savanna, IL, on its way back to North Dakota for another load.

A loaded rail train has just crossed the BNSF Aurora Sub at Savanna. This train is heading out on the Chicago Sub today to dump rail between Byron and Davis Jct. Not alot of Soo Line painted SD60'... (more)

NS 8099K, the "Southern" Heritage unit, leads an empty oil train West into the Savanna Army Depot in Savanna, IL. on Sunday Nov. 9, 2014

NS 8099k, the "Southern" Heritage unit, leads an empty oil train West on the BNSF Aurora sub headed towards Savanna, IL.

The units are 582 an ALCO RSC2 and 736 and 719 both Fairbanks Morse H12-44s.

The Monongahela heritage leads an eastbound BNSF oil train along the Mississippi River at Savanna.

A hundred more empties bound for the Bakken oil fields weave their way up the Mississippi River in the light of the setting sun.

MILW H12-44 704 sits on the turntable at Savanna while MILW FP7 101A and MILW GP30 1000 wait their turn.

A westbound freight departs the yard at Savanna, crosses the BN mainline and works its way to the Mississippi River. MILW 548 was originally MILW 2203, an SD7, before being rebuilt by the shops i... (more)

Another of a parade of NB pigs trains traversed the picturesque countryside north of the great little junction town of Savanna. I may have said my favorite BNSF paiint scheme was a version of Her... (more)