Sometimes you just get lucky. As this vehicle train was getting back underway at Edelstein, the sun happened to pop out from behind the tail end of cloud cover from the eastward moving series of ... (more)

A trio of Union Pacific SD70M's lead a Tuscon, AZ to Global IV Joliet Intermodal Z-train through CP 1395 in Edelstein.

In the late evening, a clean ES44C4 pulls a double stack train under the ex Santa Fe searchlights at Edelstein, IL. The signal on main two is lit up for an eastbound autorack train that this train... (more)

A fauxbonnet and another BNSF GE team up to lead a junk freight through the plant at Edelstein. The train is beginning the short but steep climb over Edelstein Hill, and will drop into Chillicothe... (more)

Big Power and Lots of It. 10 of BNSFs GEs Lead a Shot Z Train East Toward Chicago as it passes through the Illinois Farmland on a chilly and windy Day in Mid March.

5 Big GEs Lead This Eastbound Intermodal on the Chilli Sub, as it passes through the rural Illinois Farm Land, and the tiny town of Edelstein.

CN's Peoria local slows to switch a grain elevator at Emsden, IL.

M GALCSX1 08A with a SD70MAC leads a manifest hrough CP1395 near Edelstein, IL.

BNSF Z-train with a fake bonnet in the lead makes it way off Edelstein hill.

GE locomotives rule the BNSF transcon, just not quite this old.

Interesting that there are three steel loads at the head-end of this UP autorack train.

A DPU brings up the rear of this empty northbound coal drag. It is seen passing a farm field full of pumpkins, running alongside Union Pacific Road just north of Edelstein.

This northbound UP mixed freight is currently awaiting the passage of a southbound before proceeding onto the single track. The small burg of Princeville, Illinois can be seen on the horizon in th... (more)