Bloomington to Venice freight switches customers in Carlinville, IL.

Bloomington to Venice freight approaches Sherman, IL

Engineer aboard the ICG unit named “Charles H. Markham” acknowledges the photographer on Nichols Street overpass.

ICG RI Diamond In Cedar Falls the Rock Island has been shut down all most a year now and Iowa Northern hasn't started up.

A pair of rebuilt SDs team with an SD40 to take coal empties south, as empty grain hoppers head in the opposite direction.

Illinois Central ultimately acquired the very first SD45 produced by EMD. Prototype SD45 4351 became IC 7000 in January 1971. The 7000 lasted until 1987, when it was scrapped.

Train #17, "The Plug", awaits departure.

ICG's train Chicago - Council Bluffs making its way West.

Inbound and outbound power is a zoo of models today. SD20 SD24 still in Southern paint, ex GM&O GP30 to. Back when if you stayed out of the way they just waved.

Loads coming in for crew change.

ICG's Bicentennial Locomotive, "The American Eagle", stirs up the dust as it switches industries north of town.

Former GM&O GP-35s riding on ALCO trucks pass beneath the St. Louis Arch on the TRRA.

Kansas City, MO to Bloomington, IL freight led by a pair of F3s makes its way across Missouri.

A northbound Illinois Central Gulf freight eases off the mainline into Markham Yard, adjacent to the Homewood, IL, station. GP38-2 9622 heads up a mixed string of four-axle and six-axle EMDs in tw... (more)

An Illinois Central Gulf coal train headed up by SD20 2028 pauses at Homewood, IL, while the crew of a Sperry car inspects the adjoining track. ICG 2028 was a hybrid unit that had been rebuilt fro... (more)