With a powerful and nasty looking thunderstorm building off to the southwest, a southbound ETRX (Arkansas Power & Light) loaded coal drag from Caballo Rojo Mine cautiously works its way down BNSF'... (more)

What's a trip to Galesburg without stopping by railyard's engine pit? Well today, on a quick little trip into town, a buddy and I drove over the yard and spotted a good looking set of power that d... (more)

Following closely behind a 34N 05, eastbound autorack/autoparts train M22 04 (Extra 122) works it way over a small hill just east of Philo, IL on Norfolk Southern's Lafayette District with a solo ... (more)

Smokin' it up from an upgrade climb into town, a monster sized NS 145 04 manifest muscles through Tolono along the Norfolk Southern, ex Wabash, Lafayette District on a humid September afternoon. T... (more)

A matched set of H2 General Electric C44-9Ws, lined up elephant style, are in charge of this eastbound Denver, CO to Cicero, IL high priority intermodal (Z-DENCHC7 19A) as it works its way through... (more)

Paralleling an empty Knox Highway 40, a long Canadian National led M-GALCNI1 25A manifest train puts the peddle to the metal as it accelerates eastbound out of Galesburg on BNSF's Mendota Subdivis... (more)

After a quick drop-off west of here at Flagg Center, BNSF's 476 job returns back east through Rochelle on the Aurora Subdivision as it ducks beneath both a CB&Q searchlight signal bridge and its b... (more)

With the threat of a thunderstorm looming in the distance, a southbound FPPX (Fayette Power Project) loaded coal drag snakes off the Reno Subdivison from Black Thunder Mine and back onto the Orin ... (more)

On a crystal clear morning, four matching Union Pacific AC45CCTEs bring an empty Norma, WI bound rock sand train up through Edelstein, IL, milepost 60.71 on UP's seldom-used Peoria Subdivision. O... (more)

Under the command of two BNSF General Electric units, a long eastbound container train from Los Angeles, CA gallops though the town of Toluca and under the Santa Fe style searchlights that still g... (more)

Rounding a sharp curve on the northwest part of town, a westbound Cicero (Chicago), IL to South Seattle, WA intermodal Q train (Q-CHCSSE1 18) slides beneath both a classic CB&Q searchlight signal ... (more)

After a long days work, a lone BJRY SW1200 switch locomotive sits basking in the late afternoon sun next to the AmeriCold Logistics cold storage warehouse at there small yard here on the southeast... (more)

After dropping off loaded cars for Rochelle's Americold - Cold Storage facility and picking up empty ones, Union Pacific's Sterling, IL to Rochelle, IL LPG04 24 local slams across the diamond as i... (more)

Finding a brief hole in the building cloud cover, the morning sun peeps through just in time to illuminate eastbound City of Industry, CA to Global I Chicago, IL intermodal train ZCIG1 15 as it qu... (more)

Westbound empty crude oil train U-CXPMNU0 68T off the CSXT in Chicago dashes past the control point at West Chana, still guarded by some CB&Q searchlights, on BNSF's Aurora Subdivision headed by a... (more)