An Illinois Central SD70 makes a rare appearance in upstate New York, seen here crossing the Mohawk River in Rotterdam, NY

IC 1037 approaches the Rock, with its rail train.

IC 1037 waits for a signal into the East Joliet Yard.

A soloblast IC SD70 takes a rail train towards Hawthorne. It s seen here between Pulaski Rd and the BRC at last light.

In Crest Hill, a southbound rail train makes its way towards Joliet Yard, with an Illinois Central SD70 in the lead.

The IC SD70 led rail train is about to enter Matteson Sub limits, as it proceeds into the yard.

A great lashup waits for a signal at Homewood with a IC SD70 leading two CN units with a pre merger SD40-2 snoot third out and a GT GP38 providing a splash of color. Note to screener I recropped f... (more)

M337 is back in notch 8 after not having the lineup at East Jay. East Jay is the new CTC control point put in at west Munger for the connection from the EJ&E to the CN Freeport Sub. When the new C... (more)

WB CN M33791 races to the sunset through Elmhurst.

Well the engineer on this ethanol train has finally taken the throttle out of 8. This is usually the 1st spot since leaving Waterloo where the train will run faster than 50 mph. That's 17 miles wi... (more)

A loaded ethanol train makes its way east towards Chicago on this early Wednesday morning. The train is working over all the hogbacks on the Dubuque Sub east of Waterloo. This train was loaded at ... (more)

Topping the hill that one time had the siding called Marsh, Now just one more hill to pull the train over.

Swinging around a curve and over a hill too.

An empty ethanol train blows thru the east end of the siding at Beth. As you can see the Dubuque Sub is anything but flat between Waterloo and Dubuque. The elevators is the town of Masonville, 4 m... (more)

An empty ethanol train for Arthur, IA rolls west thru Manchester with 83 cars. At Waterloo this train will get new power and make a small pickup of Arthur cars before heading west around 19:30 ton... (more)