A trio of high-horsepower units, including CN 2031, bring train 422 up the grade with work at Aldershot yard.

CN X321 pulls through Snider with IC 1015 leading.

One of the last photos of this car in IC paint. This car now sports CN Green and Black as the "Great Lakes".

Power off of an ore train holds in the clear as a CN plow extra prepares to wing back snow on the hill.

After the CN bought the WC they quickly assigned a group of IC 3100 series GP40 rebuilds to former WC lines. They were pretty plain except for a couple, the 3129 had the big L shaped windshield an... (more)

Back home after the Santa Train Run.

A nice Illinois Central leader waits to depart Bensenville Yard with G35.

Built by Brooks Locomotive in 1900, arrived at IRM in 1986.

After dropping off a string of grain cars to a local industry north of town, the CN R930 job returns back south to Effingham yard as light power. One of the engines working the yard job today is a... (more)

By 2007 I was no longer shooting many slides in my home area as most trains ran under cover of darkness or against the sun. On rare occasions CN 412 would fall well off schedule and if by some mir... (more)

IC E9 101 sits in Clifton with the 2013 CN Santa Train.

Snow cakes the nose of 6252 as it works a dumper job at Two Harbors.

IC SD70 1019 busts plow lines as it leads M338 east, approaching Munger.

The engineer of CNIC's Santa Train works power out of Gibson City, with the carbon build up in Illinois Central E9 101 wafting back along the train as it heads for its next stop in Melvin, Saturda... (more)

The CN made short work of retiring most of the WC's classic 4 axle power and assigned a number of IC GP40's to replace them. 3108 was one of the early newcomers to WC lines and is backing train 41... (more)