Iowa Interstate's daily Blue Island to Council Bluff's Westbound manifest train is led by class engine #500 as it heads toward Iowa City.

A northbound CNIC train had just rolled through town, and now its Indiana Southern's turn to cross the diamonds as the local heads east.

With an Illinois Central southbound freight waiting, a Toledo, Peoria and Western westbound crosses the diamonds at Gilman, Illinois, on May 5, 1990. The TP&W in this era was repainting some of it... (more)

The northbound City of New Orleans rolls out of Gilman enroute to 9am arrival at Union Station. The train is seen here dwarfed by the coaling towers on the north end of Gilman still left along the... (more)

A pair of IC SD70's southbound thru Gilman on this Toronto to Memphis freight train. Mornings on the CN north of Champaign can be busy if trains are running late southbound. Usually couple south a... (more)

"Moscow on the Cedar" for the Iowa version.

A northbound, NS trackage rights train approaches Gilman, as viewed from Interstate 57. It's odd when you have some "car trouble" and everything seems to start functioning properly after you get y... (more)

westbound departing UP Cheyenne, WY yard

The City of New Orleans is blasting by the former depot in Gilman on their way North to Chicago on a Sunday morning in rural Illinois.

Montana may be Big Sky country but I think Wyoming would be a close second, especially around the Powder River basin. BN MAC's 9494,9823,9425 head coal east around a long sweeping curve near Coal ... (more)

Soo 2550,408,727 and DIT Ex D&H, Ex MN, shark nose 1205 bound for the E&LS highball past Gilchrist with the 109 cars of train 911. The 2550 was an ex passenger geep and has recently lost its gyral... (more)

TP&W's sole GP-18 leads the eastbound to Logansport

SD20 81, still resplendent in C&IM green, leads a southbound North Extra thru the riparian forest south of Petersburg, IL.

A mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain had been falling all day, but the WC was still up to the challenge with this only on the WC fantastic lash up. 2401,6639,1752 and 3021 have the 75 cars of tr... (more)

N&W GP18 955 leads two relatively new UP U30Cs westbound on the old Wabash, west of Springfield, IL. This shot was taken from the C&NW overpass.