PESI crossing a creek outside of the small town of Tiskilwa.

PESI notching back up to track speed after going through a 10mph restriction near Annawan.

DMIR 215 and 403 pair up to switch Proctor Yard manifest freight for CN. The two units are the last on CN's roster still sporting both DMIR nos. and colors. An occasional visitor to the Duluth are... (more)

January 31, 2009: the end of the line. 13 years ago, January 31, 2009 marks the final day of EJ&E’s 122 year existence before the CN takeover. EJ&E 667 leads the Kirk Yard west end in March 2020... (more)

A trio of UP light power move into the North Yard to tackle moving some cars.

Screaming out of the Illinois River Valley, IAISs Peoria to Silvis train curves towards Tiskilwa with 99 cars. Two SD38-2s roaring uphill were music to the ears!

With the sun starting to swing to the west, Iowa Interstates Peoria to Silvis train cruises through Mineral with two newly reactivated SD38-2 locomotives up front.

On a hot summer evening, BICB sits tied down at Silvis with a trusty SD38-2 and a GEVO while they wait for a crew to take it to Council Bluffs.

After picking up an empty coke train at the nearby Gary Works, EJ&E 669 and CN 5369 head into Kirk Yard. In the process, they pass by the classic roundhouse.

A pair of EJ&E SD38-2's slowly roll down home rails in East Chicago, Indiana. The two veterans are in charge of the Lakefront Local, headed back home to Kirk Yard after switching the port in Chica... (more)

Looking great in new paint, this unit, originally owned by Yankeetown Dock is back in business bringing up the end of a push-pull train returning to the prep plant on this line which connects wit... (more)

After a long haul up IAIS’s Peoria Sub, the early 2000s consist of newly reactivated SD38-2s, and a GP38, pull to a stop to flag a crossing aside this elevator, in the tiny town of Putnam.

Fresh after a 2 year hiatus in a storage, two of the four Iowa Interstate SD38-2 locomotives, along with a GP38, crawl over the Illinois River in Peoria with a long cut of grain & manifest traffic... (more)

Both of Indiana Harbor Belt’s to most favorited locomotives by railfans sit side by side at Blue Island Yard on the end of a Monday afternoon in Riverdale. IHB’s last SD38-2 still in service r... (more)

Thirty-Eights. On January 31, 2021, Indiana Harbor Belt 3861 (SD38-2) and 3801 (GP38-2) were crossing the Grand Calumet River in Calumet, East Chicago, Indiana during a nice snow storm. IHB... (more)