A rebuilt NS AC44C6M leads the RoadRailer under the abandoned CNW line to St Louis just outside of Springfield, IL.

Chicago and Illinois Midland, C&IM SW1200 23, at Springfield, Illinois. June 11, 1991. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo Built as, CIM 23 SW1200, November, 1955. C&IM 23>DJRX 23 (Joseph Transportatio... (more)

C&IM, Chicago and Illinois Midland SD38 73, at Springfield, Illinois. June 12, 1991. Jack D Kuiphoff photo

C&IM 31 RS1325, one of only two ever built by EMD, at Springfield, Illinois. June 12, 1991. Jack D Kuiphoff video © photo

The Oakwood Yard in Detroit, MI,to Avondale Yard in Kansas City, MO, auto parts train rolls thru downtown Springfield on the NS Springfield District. The downtown is on the change as big funding ... (more)

A nice string of unturbocharged power that must have sounded on a coal train.

Note the little paint touchup. Great looking in the old paint scheme. Photo by Bob Lehman.

I prefer the old buttheads back to back like this. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Not the most popular model but capable of a great throaty roar, this one is looking really spiffy as they usually did. Photo by Bob Lehman.

Chicago & Illinois Midland EMD SD18 No. 60 sits in repose for the night in September 1984 at the railroad’s locomotive shop in Springfield, Illinois. C&IM owned two low nose SD18s, Nos. 60 and 6... (more)

Chicago & Illinois Midland EMD RS1325 No. 30, along with EMD SW1200 No. 20, sit outside near the railroad’s shop at Springfield, Illinois, in February 1984. Constructed by EMD in October 1960, C... (more)

At Springfield's B&O yard, an Alco FA-2 and two F7B's led by 4028 in the famous "Sunburst" paint scheme. This was one of the "modern" changes which took place during the B&O's... (more)

The daily Chicago-to-KC freight rolls through what's left of the ex-IC yard just after meeting KC-2 (KC to Chicago). In a few minutes, at a spot called Brickyard, the train will curve onto a form... (more)

Chicago to Kansas City train CK-1 waits just east/north of Starnes Tower as an N&W freight moves through the plant.

A few weeks into the era of N&W control of IT, a freight behind mixed IT and N&W diesels comes out of IT's little Springfield yard and is about to cross over onto the N&W main to end east.