Union Pacific Railroads North Local, is south bound returning to its home base of Bloomington, Illinois as it passes by the beutifully restored depot in Dwight, Illinois on Wednesday September 5, ... (more)

The Labor Day evening of September 3, 2007 is broken by the passage of a CNIC north bound empty BNSF coal train, unloaded at the Archer Daniels Midland power station in Decatur, Illinois and headi... (more)

Union Pacific grain loads sail through Lawndale, Illinois at 10:20am on a fantastic Saturday morning, the first day of September 2007.

Norfolk Southern local train D31D departs Springfield, Ilinois and approaches the former site of Iles Tower, where the NS once crossed the UP Springfield sub at grade on a diamond crossing. Iles w... (more)

Engineer Dave Allenson has a nice leader on the point, as he operates a loaded grain train through a dense area of grade crossings buildings and utilities in Pekin, Illinois. The CNIC grain loads ... (more)

Engineer Dave Allenson brings the CN 8012 South to a stop, while setting out 22 grain loads at Mt. Pulaski, Illinois on Monday evening.

Engineer Dave Allenson brings the CN 8012 South to a stop, while setting out 22 grain loads at Mt. Pulaski, Illinois on Monday evening.

Monticello Railway Museum locomotive engineer Hank Brickman, who joined the museum in 1966, is shown operating the Saturday afternoon tourist train through the woods around Camp Creek, North of Mo... (more)

Monticello Railway Museum's restored NW2 # 1649 switches the yard following Saturday operations. While the day was filled with rain, the sky cleared in the late afternoon while museum volunteers

Monticello Railway Museum engineer Steve Gerber posed restored NW2 # 1649 alongside pine trees at the Central Illinois museum, following Saturday operations. While the day was filled with rain, th... (more)

A Norfolk Southern OL Special passes an eastbound stack train at speed, as seen from the NS car Pocahontas. The photo was made west of Danville, Illinois, from the back of the The Norfolk Southe... (more)

Norfolk Southern local train D47D is shoving a loaded grain train into the Yuton siding, south east of Carlock, Illinois after a late Friday July 6, 2007 pickup from AgRail, a grain loading facili... (more)

With a crescent moon shining over them, the crew of the ''Canton Cannonball'' works at sunset in LaHarpe, Illinois switching out a train bound for points east. Engineer Doug Henry will be on duty... (more)

Far from hauling Bay Area Commuters, Union Pacific GP40P-2 # 1373 South leads train M BNAS (Manifest - Bloomington - Alton Southern) along former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio trackage at Elkhart, Illinois ... (more)

Peoria & Western FP9A's 1750 and 1752 sit at Seville, Illinois on a fantastic spring day, April 16,2007. The ''Canton Cannonball'' headed west between Mapleton and LaHarpe, Illinois, is waiting fo... (more)