TRRA's Granite City local stops to serve some industries just north of their Madison yard.
TRRA 201 heads west across the BNSF through downtown St. Louis with their pair of SD60I's leading a gaggle of BNSF power from MEI.
INRD CN grain loads head back south through Newton for interchange back to the CN.
A pair of IC SD70's pass the IC passenger station at Mattoon. This 1918-built station still proudly wears IC letterings on the platform and main entrance.
A trio of BLE tunnel motors lead stone loads north into the setting sun.
A408 rolls south through the hills of southern Illinois with a pair of IC SD70's. Countless grain elevators line the former IC, as shown in the small town of Farina.
Three SD40-2's are in run 8 as they climb towards Duke Edwardsport with coal loads from the INRD at Bear Run.
INRD coal loads to Hoosier Energy at Merom slow to take the diverging route at Hoosier Junction, just west of Sullivan.
One of INRD's two slug sets leads the miscellaneous coal out of Bear Run. Although named the Bear Run to Hiawatha coal, this train now runs to Palestine. Former CNW coal cars are used, now stencil... (more)
A497 diverges to the Bluford at Edgewood with a KCSM gray AC4400 and a BNSF warbonnet C44-9W.
A408's pair of IC's meet another pair of IC's on A407 in Tuscola. Sometimes it seems like the IC never left.
A pair of IC deathstars lead A408 past the IC-built Mattoon station. Now served by Amtrak, this station was built in 1918.
INRD's Crane turn brings some empty military flats past a former Milwaukee depot to the Navy base at Crane.
CSXT 4419 is a bit of a nostalgia kick for the already antique Indiana Sub. Oh, to see this line in its hayday.
A rare daylight rock train crosses Tulip Trestle on a muggy July day.
