Classic B&O position signals are lit and the gates start to drop as another northbound NS run-thru move nears this small burg just north of Cincinnati, OH.
The Illinois Railway gets out of Eola with its beg, borrowed and stolen locomotives.
Run-thru power of the IC&E and DM&E head west into the sunset, nearing Chicago connections.
Metra #2223 heads west past Tower B-17 on the Elgin Sub.
NS's 951 inspection train and a CP 330 train parallel each other through Franklin Park, IL.
A WBD with mismatched doors meets an eastbound fertilizer empty at High St. in Aurora, IL.
A westbound CSX autorack detours on old B&O trackage, seen crossing the Madison Railroad at North Vernon, IN.
A nice white-brow NS unit leans into the curves at Otis, bound for IHB's Blue Island Yard.
Coming off CSX's Indianapolis sub is a ghostly-looking Q670.
Disguised as an Alton & Southern job, some NS power shoves their move into Gateway Yard in the Metro East section of St. Louis.
Heading north for access to their Pana Sub at Lenox Tower, a hot UP "Z" train rolls for Yard Center, IL.
With a CEFX leaser up front, the TP&W comes back to Remington at sunset.
Quietly idling in Galewood Yard, CP train 486 waits for a recrew to get it the 4 more miles into CP's overcrowded Bensenville Yard.
Heading up shortline hill, the TC&W leaves St. Paul behind, heading west for Hopkins, MN.
Hell bent for Chicago, another EBD stacker leaves the Twin Cities behind.