The CNIC's Peoria Local makes a rare early morning run south, after the previous days crew died on the hours of service. A BNSF unit has been borrowed off a coal train being unloaded in Decatur. T... (more)
An unpatched and a little worse for the wear Southern Pacific SD45 R leads three other UP six axles and a short MBNAS south out of Bloomington, Illinois on Thursday November 29, 2007.
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Illinois Central 3140 is another one of a kind locomotive on the current CNIC roster. The engine is former Chicago & North Western Railway GP50 # 5051, derated to 3000 hsp while retaining its GP50... (more)
Amtrak train 303, the Ann Rutledge, gets a highball from the conductor of train 22, The Texas Eagle, as they perform a Market Street meet in Bloomington Tuesday morning.
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Union Pacific's South Local, with a 25 year old former Rio Grande GP40 on the point, blasts away from its work on the Havana District and Lincoln, Illinois.
STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO