BNSF 5136 soars Eastbound while heading past the Blue Island Diamond on one of four other rails alongside the diamond on Jan. 14, 2015.

BNSF 2013 gets ready to pull onto the Illinois Railway Interchange at Flagg Center, Illinois.

Loaded coal train, UP 5867, heads Eastbound on the UP Geneva sub near Franklin Grove, IL. on Dec. 3, 2014.

NS 8099K, the "Southern" Heritage unit, leads an empty oil train West into the Savanna Army Depot in Savanna, IL. on Sunday Nov. 9, 2014

UP 7510 sits stationary as it gets filled with grain while CN 8928 speeds past from the left while heading Westbound on the CN sub towards Warren, IL. on November 19, 2014.

CN 4028 idles in the CN Freeport Yard in Freeport, IL.

NS 8099k, the "Southern" Heritage unit, leads an empty oil train West on the BNSF Aurora sub headed towards Savanna, IL.

CN 4028 pulls away from the CN Freeport, IL Yard while heading Eastbound into Rockford.