Nearing the end of it's all night sojourn from Kansas City, Kansas, the H-KCKGAL1-17A enters the Cameron Connection at CP 1850 and makes the turn southward toward the Galesburg Yard. No doubt the ... (more)

With all five jacks burning, the white-hot Z-SBDWSP9-16P screams eastward along the BNSF Chillicothe Sub just outside Cameron, Illinois.

The sun has just come up as eastbound hot intermodal train Z-STOWSP9-30L roars under the classic searchlights at CP YOST just east of Galesburg on the Chillicothe Sub.

A hot Z from Willow Springs, Illinois to Alliance, Texas is blasting into the sunset attempting to gain speed to attack the famed "Edlisten Hill" just west of here. The train is passing... (more)

Pulling with all their might, 22,000 horses come over the top of the most formidable mainline grade in the state of Illinois known as Edelstein Hill.

The westbound Southwest Chief is right on time as it makes it's way across the former Santa Fe bridge in Fort Madison, Iowa. At Ft. Madison, the train wil leave the Chillicothe Sub and enter the M... (more)

A westbound Z-CHCPTL9-21A is dwarfed by the shear rock cliffs that make up the Mississippi Palisades State Park just north of Savanna, Illinois. It's hard to believe that this spot is in Illinois,... (more)

A westbound Q-CXOLAC7-19A rolls across the bridge in Ft. Madison, Iowa. It's not all that hard to imagine a quarted of EMD GP60M's leading these pigs across this very bridge just 25 years ago.

The Chief makes it's daily, albeit extremely brief, appearance in Oneida, Illinois on a beautiful August afternoon.

Three MRL SD45's charge eastward near Reed Point, Montana on a beautiful August morning.

Screaming eastbound, three Montana Rail Link SD45's are in charge of the M-SPOLAU1-06A on a beautiful mid summer morning. The train is skirting the banks of the Yellowstone River, and will shortly... (more)

A stack train heads west past a long dead oak tree heading for it's first crew change point of Fort Madison, Iowa.

Moments out of it's brief crew change at Linwood Road in Galesburg, Illinois, the V-BLUKCK roars past CP 1850, also known as the Cameron Connection. As it heads west for Kansas City, the train is ... (more)

A westbound Z-WSPLAC9-07L races past a corn field just west of the small town of Cameron, Illinois.

The crew of a E-CXCATM0-23A has just untied the train and is rolling west near Clay Switch just out of Galesburg, Illinois.The train will head to Creston, Iowa where a fresh crew will take the tra... (more)