ADMX 822, an EMD SW8 built for the Rock Island, pulls a cut of cars off the CN interchange and into the ADM elevator at Tuscola.

A three pack of Dash 8s, the leader being a standard cab, exit the scale track and enter the Missabe Subdivision at Adolph.

BLE 904 heads the southbound 1600 Proctor Road Switch south out of town and down the hill towards Duluth for a fresh load of limestone.

CN SD40u 6024 leads U716, an empty ore train headed for United Taconite in Forbes, MN, off of the scale tracks in Proctor in perfect light as it departs north.

A pair of BLE motors roar through the tiny unincorporated community of Brimson, MN as they take the U737 BFT train towards Two Harbors.

IC 6252 and two other EMDs grind up Proctor Hill with R922 in tow.

Unlike McDonald's, UP offered a good looking MAC today on MYCAS. Here we see UP 3642, an EMD SD9043MAC, as it gets ready to make a large setout at Villa Grove.

A haze sets across the Illinois horizon as northbound MASCH sets its dynamics and prepares for a crew change in Villa Grove. Leading the way is SD60M 2337, an SD70M, and GP40-2 1427.

UP GSHDNA, a southbound grain train, gets back on the move out of Block after waiting for a track inspector. This train will once again ease to a halt just north of Villa Grove at "Garbage Du... (more)

IC 1026 and a GECX motor ran light to Tuscola, where they'd pick up a southbound grain train at the ADM (formerly Cargill). They're seen here awaiting permission onto main one after some traffic p... (more)

UP AGBML doesn't waste anytime departing Villa Grove with a fresh crew aboard and a three pack of CSX units, the third being an SD40-3. This train is bound for Mira Loma, CA, an area within Jurupa... (more)

CSXT 8662 is the sole unit on this short Q131-30 as it splits the town of Montrose, IL in half. This train will split off the CSX St. Louis Line at St. Elmo, where it'll go to Salem on the UP's Sa... (more)

NS 61K rolls through Bement, with the engineer really laying the throttle down, as you can tell by the exhaust. NS 6658 is on the head end with its days numbered.

After holding at Unity siding (between Philo and Sidney) for an eastbound mixed freight, 61K is back on the move again, already at track speed by the time it reaches our location a mile west of Ph... (more)

The engineer on southbound CN train A497 gives a wave as we pace him between Tolono and Pesotum. Leading the way is no more than BCOL 4644, a C44-9WL in the red, white, and blue paint scheme.