DMIR 212 leads an empty taconite train into Proctor after climbing Proctor Hill from the Duluth docks. No. 212 could use some touch up on its paint job. By this time older SD9s were getting pretty... (more)

Iowa SD38-2 150 leads SIBI east under the vintage Rock Island cantilever at Robbins.

DMIR 212 leads a consist parked at Proctor, MN diesel shop. The 212 looks a bit worse for wear with maroon paint chipping off the unit. The 212, SD40-3 410 and SD38-2 210 will team up to handle Pr... (more)

Iowa Interstate's westbound BICB switches the siding at Booneville.

After a day of clouds, the skies cleared up nicely as EJ&E 659 and GTW 6221 thundered through Ivanhoe, with an L516 train bound for Griffith.

EJ&E SD38-2 675 pulls out of KA Steel to hook back up to its train in Lemont.

The west train, with 2 east facing engines, passes the west end of Moline siding.

The west train crosses Fillmore St on its way through Davenport. In the Rock Island days, this was Missouri Division Jct where the mainline to Kansas City split from the mainline to Omaha. Now t... (more)

These handsome CNW SD38-2s were among my favorite motive power on the railroad. Trouble was they were specifically ordered for hump and transfer duties in Chicago, so did not normally ventured ver... (more)

EJ&E 660 leads the Walker local south through Crest Hill. Nice to see a J out on home rails.

Right at home on former EJ&E rails, EJ&E 660 leads the Walker Local over the DuPage River in Plainfield.

A 3 way meet on the Iowa Interstate. IAIS 502 brings CBBI into the west end of Silvis yard while IAIS 150 awaits a crew to take BICB west towards Council Bluffs, IA. Meanwhile NS 2532 switches out... (more)

A hump set pair of rebuilt SD38-2's shove a train over the crest at Neff as another set of engines is ready to come out of the pocket and tie onto the next cut to be humped.

These SD38-2's s... (more)

A hump set of former MP SD40-2's rebuilt into UPY SD38-2's shoves a big cut over the hump at UP Neff Yard out of Track 208. This 844 is obviously the less famous of the two examples on the Union ... (more)

Two Squaw Creek Southern SD's run light towards Boonville.