Eastbound NS 115 rolls past freshly-mowed fields of green en route to the hole in New Baden.
Westbound 112 splits the signals at MP 28.7 / 28.8. I've been fanning the line for 4 years...this is the first time I've made the short hike to get this westbound shot.
After meeting the eastbound 111 at New Baden, 239 makes tracks to St Louis for the crew change.
Eastbound NS 223 rolls thru the Illinois countryside.
A matched set of SD60s power today's eastbound (very early) 223 toward New Baden, IL
NS 111 idles short of the Ill Rte 4 crossing after alerting the MP 24.9 defect detector - the cause: an applied handbrake on an 89' flatcar
