After meeting the NS 24N, w/b NS 168 rolls through Hoffman, IL en route to Granite City, IL...

Topside view of C40-9W 8921 strolling thru Centralia on BNSF trackage...

NS 168 meanders along BNSF trackage en route to company tracks...the CN(IC) double-track main stretches as far as the eye can see...

Westbound NS 168 with a trio of SD40-2s charges through Belleville, IL this afternoon...

Westbound NS 168 takes the main after meeting the today's eastbound NS 115 (115/69G combo)

Westbound NS 168 hi-balls out of Centralia yard limits and past the waiting Eastbound NS 223...

At the MP 22, a late-running westbound NS 168 absorbs some final moments of daylight...

Eleven engines make their way out of Danville yard

C44-9W UP 9585 heads up todays NS 168. Later that night, the same UP loco turned and led the eastbound counterpart NS 167.

Westbound NS 168 at the location of the old Monterey Mine cutoff. (Turnout long since removed, however a turnout frog still exists in the ditch alongside the right-of-way at this location.)

What a great thunderous sound coming around the corner, a pair of SD40-2 and a GP59

and the pics ended at Pope Lick when the light went away, but I followed him on into Louisville . . .

168 comes out from under the signal bridge at East Waddy laying on the power

A nice sight on the Pope Lick Trestle on a gloomy day

Another new SD70M just waiting for a fresh coat of paint