Northbound coal empty

Just before midnight, the conductor on this NB manifest steps off to do a roll-by, with his train sitting against an awesome moon-lit sky. Canon 350D.

Northbound freight

Northbound freight waiting for the green

A UP and unpatched SP locomotives are bathed in golden light on this southbound coal drag waiting for a signal at ICG. Water from severe storms and green foilage signals the true beginning of spri... (more)

Illuminated by a southbound, this northbound manifest waits in the hole, being run-around by both north- and southbounds. He's barely visible but the conductor is on the left side of the locomotiv... (more)

How's this for sweet power? One of only three remaining C&NW's, and a ex SP. After hog lawing about three times, and sitting in sidings for up to 12 hrs., MNLTR 19 finally notches out on the home ... (more)

UP MPIPB 25 is waiting for a Northbound to pass, so it can cross over and go South. In an attempt not to block the crossing ahead of them, they ended up blocking a school bus at the crossing behin... (more)

This image comes to you via . . . moonlight! UP manifest MLIAS 12 is sitting under the stars in the middle of bumbleton nowhere with nothing but the full moon to light it, creating a very dramatic... (more)

At sunset, this hot intermodal, ITIMNX 30, highballs south out of Dupo with a colorful train.

Two UP SD40-2's are illuminated by the early morning sun as they blast through a bank of fog after getting a signal into Dupo. Train was ALDAS 19.

WGHGOS-11 heads south with conveyer type of ballast cars

QASLIX 07 highballs southbound at sunset, while dark clouds slowly creep in in the background.

A UP AC4400CW serving as the DPU on this train, rolls through Illinois farmland on the was to Dupo.

Southbound Intermodal