The first order of business for the crew of Norfolk Southern train D36 is to clear snow from what will be the trailing locomotove to Decatur, Illinois. Shown at Good Yard in Normal, 3523 had been ... (more)

During the early morning hours of February 13th, a UP Z train derailed in Normal, IL. The cleanup process was underway by this point. Thankfully, there were no injuries reported. On another lucky ... (more)

Another one bites the dust... a number of 1970s era Amtrak station designs have closed in recent years to make way for new modern facilities or restored old stations that have been revitalized. Th... (more)

The current station across the platform from the old Amtrak "classic" style station.

Norfolk Southern local D47 works Good Yard in Normal, Illinois as a snowstorm begins to fall on Sunday afternoon. Locomtoive 3488 is a former BNSF unit purchased by the NS in September of 2012. St... (more)

Norfolk Southern D47 pulls loads of recycled and baled paper from Midwest Fiber in Normal, Illinois. The leader was built for the Southern Railway in 1972. Steve Smedley photo

Amtrak 63 on train 303 departing the new station of Bloomington-Normal.

Norfolk Southern train 64D, a loaded ethanol train out of Iowa, blasts past Good Yard in Normal, Illinois, Southbound on the Bloomington District with engineer Steve Johnston at the throttle of a ... (more)

NS D32 approaches College Avenue at 10 mph ready to enter the diverging route into Good Yard. They will yard their train in Track #8, then cut their power off and place it on the head end of D36'... (more)

Norfolk Southern's two PR43C units, 4000-4001, the first on the roster, rest at Good Yard in Normal, Illinois on Saturday Oct. 16, 2010. NS, along with builder Progress Rail, recently announced a... (more)

Norfolk Southern's D 47D local, with former Conrail SD50 5415 and a sister, bring a train of used cross ties across College Avenue North bound at Normal, Illinois on Friday Jan. 8, 2009. STEVE S... (more)

If you look close you can see Caterpillar yellow behind the hood doors on PRLX 4300, another Progress Rail Services Caterpillar powered locomotive is testing out of the Norfolk Southern Railway's ... (more)

The Normal depot operator, silhouetted in the doorway, informed the crew of this southbound that the arrival of a GM&O passenger was imminent. He told them that they could hold out north of town,... (more)

Norfolk Southern train D49D begins the yarding process of its train from East Peoria, Illinois. The two PR43C's; Caterpillar powered locomotives produced by Progress Rail, are again testing betwee... (more)

Norfolk Southern train D49D rolls towards a trackside defect detector as it nears Yuton, Southbound early Friday morning August 14, 2009. The two Caterpillar powered Progress Rail PR43C's have a... (more)