Finally... some non-coal action. Brrrrrrrr is all I think of when I look back on this shot. The frostnip was only painful for a few minutes.

In late 2008 getting a pure SD40-2 consist on a road train of a Class 1 railroad is reason to celebrate a little. CP 5833 and 5727 trail the 5612, all surviving soldiers from CP's onetime vast ar... (more)

IC SD40-2 6007 sits at Homewood Yard with a southbound manifest on Christmas Day. With several of these stored in the deadline, this was a nice sight.

Santa Fe 9528 is back in blue after a kodachrome dip in the '80s. She leads an eastbound consist across Media trestle on Memorial Day. 4th back is EMD demonstrator SD60 8301, back in the EMD fle... (more)

With 2 loads and 37 empties, CNW's Madison-South Janesville wayfreight splits the blades crossing County Rd. T, at the halfway point between the two south-central Wisconsin cities. Both engines a... (more)

A CN land barge nears Buffalo Grove on the high iron at track speed.

CSX SD40-2 9124 leads a eastbound manifest down the old Rock mainline through Joliet.

A lone Soo SD60 handles this manifest moving west over the Watertown sub and the approach to CTC Dodge west.

Leased Santa Fe power leads a Gateway Western train over the former GM&O route across Missouri, past the old depot at Vandalia enroute to KC.

ICE tonnage moves along Hiway 72 westbound in the rolling hills of NW Illinois.

The foliage has just about bridged the gap where the IC Gruber line used to cross over the doubletrack Milwaukee. Today, the IC&E splits the old bridge abutments headed west on a single main whic... (more)

An IC&E westbound throttles up as it nears the old crossing of the CGW, a remnant of which can be seen on the right.

The IC&E interrupts the quiet of a Saturday afternoon in the farming community of Stillman Valley.

The power shortage on the IC&E means its getting really difficult to find pure IC&E consists. Here a westbound leaves DJ with horsepower assistance from the power dept. at CP.

CEFX SD40-2 (rebuilt from a SD45) 3143 sits with a rare daylight westbound manifest on the old Rock mainline.