The westbound mail train slows for a crew change at Ft. Mad passing the old Schaffer Pen factory. I was inspired by Joe McMillan's "High Green To Marceline" to shoot this spot.
BNSF 111 waits at a red board for the last of the morning Metra commuter trains to head into the city with its passengers...
A manifest departs Northtown Yard.
Westbound past the bed and breakfast at Knox Station with stacks for LA..
BNSF 116 South charges out of Ney Yard and diagonally across a city street as it heads onto the UP's MIdlothian Sub.
An eastbound BNSF general freight with a dogs breakfast of power heads for IHB's Blue Island Yard.
Double stacks for St. Paul, MN speed around a curve in the shadow of Elk River's watertower.
Still looking good in it's Warbonnet paint, BNSF 125 leads a spartan sister unit and the new H-GFDNTW south on the Hillsboro Sub.
What an odd power duo for North Dakota: Santa Fe vets BNSF 125 (GP60M) and BNSF 8704 (GP60) lead the fourth run of the upgraded Grand Forks - Northtown manifest south past the grain silos in Alton... (more)
A pair of former ATSF warbonnet GP60M's double team a lengthy stack train out of Cicero. It sure is nice to see some older consists on the line again.
Both Q380, and Q364 sit just west of the CP 14 interlocking. In a stroke of bad luck for the photographer, both trains recieved the "high green" simultaneously. The Q364 accelerated faster, and ... (more)
The BNSF Warm Springs Local heading for the UP Warm Springs Yard in Fremont.
What's better than one Warbonnet GP60M? Two, of course!
A 199 train kicks up dust as it roars across the San Joaquin Delta at Oakley doing 70 mph.
A nice catch as the last train of the day.
