End of the day and end of the daylight. In the distance of the evening, our conductor ties up the end of the train while Jer shuts down the power for the night. By the morning, fertilizer will be ... (more)

Late summer harvest time. Knee-high lentils turn all sorts of shades of yellow and orange as they become ripe and ready for harvest. Using all three motors, the W&I moves 11 loads of fertilizer ac... (more)

A west turn rocks past the old elevator nearing Iowa City.

Parts & Power. DT 1608 & PREX 3054 get the weekend off at the yard in Assumption.

Power on the Decatur Junction main line. Distant unit is DT 1608.

BB 9 and BB 5 wait on the Middle Depot Track in Charlottesville, VA, behind the Amtrak station (ex-SOU) for a three-hour late Cardinal, Train #50, to arrive before proceeding west.

Hands of the railroad.

Built in 1954 as a GP-9 this locomotive was rebuilt to a GP-16 by the SCL in 1979 and re-manufactured by Conrail at Juniata Locomotive Shops in 1993 for the US Army Railroad to use on Mulberry Isl... (more)

ILSX 1354, ex-IAIS 495, sits on the diamond over the weekend in its new paint scheme, painted by Northern Plains Railroad Services in Fordville, ND. This locomotive spent the winter at the new In... (more)

Short haul railroading on the Illinois prairie.

Always look both ways before crossing a diamond.

NB grain train out of La Crosse

One of the grain elevators in Oakesdale towers above the 316 in the late afternoon sun. The railroad moves a large amount of grain traffic out of Oakesdale, reflecting the agricultural traffic tha... (more)