During the golden hour Union Pacific Missouri Pacific Heritage Unit arrives in the St. Louis metropolitan area after a delay due to a vehicle stuck at a crossing in Central Illinois.

For years, rumors have been floating around that the coal fired, Midwestern Generating Station in Romeoville was going to be making a transition to natural gas. Most, if not all nearby plants have... (more)

A UP heavyweight ES44 leads a massive stack train south over a frozen Lake Moredock near Valmeyer, Illinois.

A single old Dash 9 powers this westbound autorack empty bound for KC from Northtown. Here the train crosses the Mighty Mississippi River between Quincy and West Quincy on the Brookfield. The trai... (more)

A high priority freight train from Blytheville, AR, to Galesburg, IL, is slowly pulling out of the West Quincy Yard. The train here crosses the Quincy Bay Bridge as they begin the last segment of ... (more)

The Terminal's duo of SD60Is head light east across the bridge in Venice. These two former CSX units are the Terminal's first widecab units.

A pair of Santa Fe GE locomotives power a westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe stack track crosses the Vermillion River at South Streator, Illinois, on the afternoon of April 26, 1997.

M GALCHI rolls east across the Kankakee River, a little west of Wilmington, IL. After being tied down in the support yard west of here all night, we were treated to an unusual early afternoon run.... (more)

After making its departure from the nearby BRC Clearing Yard, Y HOD303 utilizes the IHB Mainline as it crosses the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal, just west of Canal. Not far up ahead, the train wi... (more)

The UP Proviso to Pine Bluff manifest heads over Kickapoo Creek just west of Peoria. The UP (CN&W) low line into Peoria and BNSF (CB&Q) Peoria Sub travel under the far side of the bridge. The Mi... (more)

9168/9311/9117 North at La Salle, Il. crossing the Illinois River. Terry Norton Photo

On an unseasonably warm late autumn afternoon, LPJ05 races over the Fox River with a GP60, GP15, and a AC44. For the most part, engines without CNW Cab Signaling cant lead on the UP Geneva Sub. UP... (more)

OMLX GP38-3 #1019 leads a string of empty BNSF coal cars to Ottawa, as some fall colors hang on in mid October. Heading north across a little bridge just south of town, this is the last of the coa... (more)

The last one? For years, the Illinois Railway Streator Branch has been home to a significant number of stored BNSF coal cars. Lately, the IR has slowly been removing the cars to send back to the B... (more)