Leaving behind the massive Tate & Lyle/Staley corn processing plant, a westbound Triple Crown freight exits the city in the late afternoon.
Trio of GP60's running long hood forward charge east past the depot. The trailing locomotives are NS 7128 & 7123.
Normally used as power on track geometry trains, nicely painted NS 5826 holds on a signal after spotting cars at Tate & Lyle.
Motors in the Decatur yard lined up for a later trip to Indianapolis.
Triple Crown train 240 making its daily run east into Decatur.
IC brings coal empties by the depot. In a moment another set of engines will take this train north toward Peoria.
Slightly overpowered, but getting the job done near downtown Decatur.
Built in 1976 for Southern Railway, high-hood GP38-2, NS 5177, still gets a daily workout. Here, she is heading back to the NS yard after delivering cars to the Tate & Lyle plant.
Illinois Central power runs south at the diamonds to deliver a hopper to the nearby CSX yard.
After holding in the yard, waiting on a bridge reconstruction project to clear the tracks, NS 301 begins its trip exiting Decatur.
The Missouri River Eagle makes the turn in Southern Illinois. After being serviced it will return to St. Louis, Missouri.
Auto parts train races by the old searchlight signals west of Decatur.
Intermodal stack train exits industrial Decatur on a Sunday evening in October.
Rarely seen outside of the Norfolk Southern yard NS 2419 & 2418 work near the Archer Daniels Midland plant on Faries Parkway.
Heading south past harvested fields in Central Illinois short mixed freight train 181.
