During one of the worst central Illinois winters in memory, a northbound "slingshot" piggyback train, powered by ICG GP35 2501, became mired in snowdrifts south of Springfield. GM&O F3s 800B and ... (more)

ICG #33 has just finished working Ridgely Yard in Springfield and now continues southbound behind four former GM&O F3As. 810B, 811A, ICG 1615 and 806B are still several years away from being rein... (more)

Three red and white GM&O GP38-2s, lead by 705, roll a southbound freight through Gibson City and a meet with the northbound American Freedom Train.

GM&O 291 at locomotive service facility at Union Station

GM&O DL-109's 272 and 270 at the engine service facility at Union station

An Alco parked in a soulful environment that one could only expect from the GM&O.

Southbound mixed freight behind an A-B-B set of F7's pounds across the TP&W diamond while the tower operator gives the train the once over. The tower of course is long gone but the depot stands t... (more)

Just beautiful sitting by the turntable despite 38 years, this old shot was taken with my first SLR, an old focal plane shutter type and some "off-brand" film such as AGFA but it held up well. If... (more)

She's been GM&O, then ICG, then ICRR, and is now Paducah & Louisville, but who's to know? There may have been some benefit to the former parent's preoccupation with fizzy sugar water and tortilla... (more)