After a brief pause at Wood Street to wait on DD23 to clear up, NS 34N is back on the move as it passes thru the beautiful Millikin University campus on the southwest side of Decatur.

NS #145 approaches the Mississippi River at East Hannibal with two auto parts cars and 50 empty covered hoppers picked up off the Pass at Griggsville. #145's crew will set the 50 covered hoppers ... (more)

NS 35Z races the setting west to Decatur with a short train out of Frankfort, Indiana. The large grain elevator complex at Sidney looms in the distance.

Amtrak Heritage P42DC 156 leads today's edition of the northbound Texas Eagle as the train hits the Illinois & Midland diamond at Ridgely Tower.

CN 5711 leads an empty Farmersville coal train south across the mostly frozen waters of Lake Springfield. Once loaded at the Crown II mine, this train will head north to Cedar Rapids, via Peoria ... (more)

The KCS Local "takes the connection" at the Brickyard on CN's Gilman Subdivision as it heads back west to Cockrell and home rails southwest of Springfield after working the Illinois & Midland inte... (more)

BNSF 9935 East prepares to depart Lowder after meeting a westbound CN grain train.

C&IM's two SD18's lead a short North Extra past a patch of wild flowers as the train approaches Ridgely Tower.

The 2010 corn harvest is already underway in early September as NS 66A heads west past a combine taking a short break from the task at hand.

The Loop, Amtrak train #311, passes Ridgely Tower during the summer of 1993. Look at all the history: No. 10 slip switch is still in place, the "Iron Man" train order stand hasn't been rem... (more)

When I headed west to Jacksonville this afternoon it was to get past the thunderstorms and back into the sun. Imagine my surprise when the first train to show up on the BNSF was this Amtrak "Speci... (more)

One of the greatest things about the old Wabash line in the Springfield area are all of the pacing shots that can be taken alongside the tracks from old US 36. Here NS #145 seemingly sails across... (more)

NS #255's consist stretches to the horizon as the train barrels west past the old elevator at Island Grove.

"Hogger" This guy is an engineer and has the tat to prove it. Curiously, though he is seated on the wrong side of the locomotive, at least when this shot was taken.

Waterworks lives up to its name as flood waters from the Sangamon River serve as a reflecting pool for I&M 60 North's short two car train as it heads to Havana.