Amtrak's number 3 train aka the "Southwest Chief" pulls into the Galesburg Amtrak Station to make passenger drop-offs and pick-ups. The engineer was very friendly handing us a pack of bottled wate... (more)

After waiting for Amtrak to complete a station stop, a nice looking BNSF SD70ACe rolls through Galesburg with a WB empty Detroit Edison Coal train in tow headed for the coal fields of Wyoming for ... (more)

On a gorgeous September morning, BNSF 5759 sprints southbound down the Brookfield Sub through Saluda, IL with a loaded Taconite train for Granite City, IL in tow.

Five Union Pacific EMD's crawl out of Global III with a eastbound loaded Vehicle train for West Chicago, IL. The train is seen here passing the Rochelle Railroad Park on St. Patrick's Day 2012.

A Union Pacific AC44CW is in charge of this long eastbound K-Line container train for the Chicago area. The train accelerates past the Rochelle Railroad Park in the middle of a mid-afternoon parad... (more)

After holding at a red signal for a BNSF train, a westbound K-Line container train gets ready to throttle up and head on into Global III to do some work.

Two Union Pacific AC44's lead an eastbound loaded WEPX Coal train for Oak Creek, WI past the Rochelle Railroad Park on a chilly March morning. Taken on St. Patrick's Day 2012.

Led by four BNSF evolution series GE's, a high-priority Intermodal Z-train for Willow Springs, IL heads past Galesburg's Peck Park.

Amtrak's daily Carbondale, IL to Chicago, IL "Saluki" Passenger train speeds through CP I153 Tuscola on its northbound run to its next stop at Champaign.

Consisting of two SD9043MAC's, an MP15AC and a GP39-2, a behind schedule Proviso Yard to Des Moines, IA Manifest slowly eases past the Rochelle Railroad Park headed westbound.

At a pace slower than a snails pace, an eastbound Doublestack train for the Chicago area crawls past the Rochelle Railroad Park with a Phase II SD70ACe up front.

A pair of Union Pacific SD70M's lead a westbound Container train through Rochelle headed for the Global III Intermodal Facility.

On Thanksgiving weekend, a UP trackage rights Intermodal Z from City of Industry, CA to Global IV Joliet storms past Galesburg's Peck Park.

After dropping off 95% of its train at Global III, Union Pacific's Long Beach, CA to Global II Northlake container train heads east through Rochelle with only 11 cars. Taken on St. Patrick's Day 2... (more)

A couple of BNSF General Electric units race a eastbound Doublestack train through the farmlands of Illinois just west of Edelstein.