The BNSF crew has received authority to enter the UP (nee C&EI) track at Nielson, IL and begins its climb from the Little Saline Creek Valley to the top of the grade at Goreville, IL.

150 years of service: The revolutionary Eads Bridge opened for business on July 4, 1874 for rail traffic. A century and one half later, the steel wheels of BSDA Metrolink still roll on steel rai... (more)

With all the work completed at the industries served by the CMR in Union, MO, the train heads east on the former Rock Island main line to the yard at Lackland, MO.

The Rotary crew is attentive to clearing the line as they pass through "The Narrows" on the climb from Chana, NM to Cumbres Pass.

Union Pacific manifest heads north on the Chester Sub.

UP 1989 brings its train off the MacArthur Bridge as it approaches the interlocking at Valley Junction and its crew change destination in Dupo, IL.

Normally arriving at Effingham, IL before dawn, the northbound City of New Orleans makes a daylight appearance by running over three hours behind schedule.

Train 167, bound for Chattanooga, TN, passes the Belleville Skate Park.

CN local L544 with a train of empty hoppers to take to the Kaskaskia Regional Port District to reload with limestone needed for the smokestack scrubbers.

The Centralia, IL based local approaches the junction with the St. Louis Sub mainline with empty hoppers for limestone to interchange with the Kaskaskia Regional Port District at Lenzburg, IL.

The locomotive has pulled forward to clear the switch and run around the train for the return trip to Abilene, KS.

CN local based out of Centralia, IL is approaching the gate to the Prairie State Energy Campus with empty hoppers to be loaded with fly ash, which is the reside left after burning coal.

After interchanging loaded hoppers of limestone with the Kaskaskia Regional Port Authority at Lenzburg, a pair of "Death Stars" returns to the Prairie State Energy Campus (a clean coal g... (more)

A pair of "Death Stars" climbs the grade from Mud Creek after working the Prairie State Energy Campus (a clean coal generating station) near Lively Grove, IL.

The A&M RS1, originally build for the ASAB, leads a photo runby for the passengers riding on a charter sponsored by the Boston Mountain Chapter NRHS. The locomotive and former B&M combine now resi... (more)