Remnants or Rock Island and CNW still ride the rails
The Q687 rumbles into Effingham Illinois with a re numbered SD9043MAC on point.
CSX #5340 leads a short intermodal train into Terre Haute.
BNSF #5193 leads a long grain train through Litchfield Illinois.
Norfolk Southern #1022 makes it way downhill into the Hillsboro coal mine.
Norfolk Southern #1073 sits and awaits its next assignment at the Ashtabula Harbor under stormy skies.
A pair of EIRC geeps make a run to the end of the siding where it will pic up a cut of cars and head north toward Charleston.
NS #8098 makes a revers movement on the main at Staunton Illinois
EMDX #1201 leads the O55 export train through rural Germantown Illinois.
Norfolk Southern #8100 leads a very short 301 train south out of Decatur.
EMDX #1201 pulls the O55 Caterpillar export train through the vast open fields of rural southern Illinois.
Norfolk Southern's newest F unit is being moved by the UP Salem local where it will be interchanged to the NS.
Decatur Junction #1608 and #1607 sit idle with 10 empty well cars at Macon Illinois
Grand Trunk #5925 and a handful of other units await their fate at the NREX shops at Mount Vernon.
Pacing EMDX 2012 as it leads the O55 Caterpillar train in Bartelso Illinois.