The wispy snow on the ground here west of Yorkville, Illinois is just another reminder of the continuous wind, snowfall, and bitter cold temperatures that have plagued the midwest over the last fe... (more)

CN 2100 pops out of the 90-degree curved tunnel at East Dubuque, Illinois with a loaded grain train. Half of the train is in a tunnel, half on a bridge, half in Illinois, and half in Iowa! (Also, ... (more)

The Lake Shore Limited leaves the Windy City behind as it departs 20 minutes late for New York.

Imported Iowa Interstate 7081 reflects off of the a rail in Geneseo, Illinois shortly before departing for Annawan with an excursion train. Taken safely under the supervision of an IAIS employee.

Ex-SOO 6051 leads a lengthy CP 470 train over the hill east of Fairdale, Illinois in the last minutes of daylight.

Legends never die... they just wait to be reborn. Taken with permission of Friends of 261 staff.

The sun has just risen above the horizon as Minnesota Southern's daily train to the Union Pacific interchange at Worthington rocks and rolls over the deteriorating and overgrown tracks through Mag... (more)

Two different and very unique shades of yellow are displayed as a quartet of Dakota and Iowa Railroad SD40s pass by a former Santa Fe GP39-2 in BNSF's Sioux City Yard.

ICE 6418 leaves the small, picturesque community of Whitewood, South Dakota behind as it ventures through the Black Hills eastbound toward Rapid City. There, it will do work and eventually return ... (more)

Minnesota Southern's Illinois Terminal-esque paint scheme shines in the morning sun as it crawls over a bridge just west of Adrian, Minnesota.

A trio of SD40s lead Belle Fourche, South Dakota-bound CP B02 through the rural community of Saint Onge.

The conductor of train 571 is riding along on the front of ICE 6434 towards a cut of cars that needs to be retrieved from a siding at Philip's local grain elevator.

It's always upsetting to look at a photo that I took and say to myself "Well, that'll never happen again". Such is the case here as we find now-terminated CP train 277 pulling up the incline of St... (more)

Fall colors, trains, the Mississippi River and the bridges that cross over it are the defining elements of this picturesque scene just north of Savanna, Illinois. A BNSF intermodal train is seen s... (more)

A severe thunderstorm has begun to roar through the woods of rural St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, the home of the little-known Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad. Engine #5, nicknamed "Henry" is making i... (more)