Eastbound stack train moves through downtown Decatur.

An NS crew waits to exit the CSX yard as a maintenance of way vehicle travels down the NS main.

Late afternoon brings train #293 with fully loaded racks heading west to Springfield. If you look closely at the bottom left corner of the picture you can see a cat poking its head up in between ... (more)

Strange looking Dash 9 with missing NS logo on the nose brings train 145 through Decatur.

Pair of NS locomotives lead their train past the historic Wabash Depot.

Positioning coal cars for a move back into the yard.

Geep brings a single box car down the main, running it to the yard.

An FRA track geometry car has cleared the Wabash - Illinois Central diamonds. It will run south to inspect CN tracks from Decatur to Mattoon. This self-propelled car holds up to 20 people, has a... (more)

A fallen flag Wabash F unit clanks across the Wabash - Illinois Central diamonds with the NS employees Santa train. Wabash ruled the rails here in Central Illinois until its 1964 merger with Norf... (more)

The Norfolk Southern employee Santa train brings three car loads of excited kids through downtown Decatur. Manufactured in 1959 this great looking locomotive is on loan from the Monticello Railwa... (more)

A Conrail gondola flips over with the help of an excavator. It's the end of the line for this gon as NS scraps several next to its main line near downtown Decatur.

Conrail paint on the point of Q593 as it arrives in industrial Decatur concluding a trip from Indianapolis.

NS moves a freight across a choppy Lake Decatur on a windy day. The trailing unit is BNSF 6064.

NS freight flies across the campus of Millikin University.

Rolling across the Illinois prairie.