Rambling along north of town right along the Mississippi is the local on double track. Had a great place up high across from the state park and enjoyed vacation immensely.

An empty oil train is about to cross the CP Chicago Sub at Savanna. While waiting for the Holiday Train, we took in some BNSF action. The BNSF yard here comes and goes on what the need is for.

Four of a kind
It’s 6:45 in the morning of July 14, 1991, as Soo Line EMD GP38-2 No. 4444 glows in the early sunlight and new candy-apple red paint, leading an eastbound Soo freight ou... (more)

Burlington Northern train 2 passes colorful autumn trees on the bluffs of Mississippi Palisades State Park just north (west) of Savanna, Illinois, on the afternoon of October 25, 1992.

South Seattle to Chicago Z-train makes the last 143 miles into Chicago. The train is passing thru Savanna and soon will leave the banks of the Mississippi River which they have been following sinc... (more)

At 6:35 p.m. on April 27, 1991, a westbound Soo Line train departs Savanna, Illinois, led by candy apple red Soo EMD SD60 No. 6055.

Powered by a pair of EMD SD40-2s, an eastbound Burlington Northern intermodal train follows a frozen Mississippi River into Savanna, Illinois, on the afternoon of January 30, 1993.

I have made a few trips across the causeway between Sabula and Savanna back in the IMRL/IC&E days. I always thought "there got to be some cool shots out here," but never had opportunity ... (more)

BN GP7 1582 leads a 6 unit consist of Geeps and SDs as it handles a pickup and set out at Savanna, IL on a snowless early January morning in 1976. Savanna was a crew change and junction point for... (more)

BN EMD GP39M No. 2805 leads westbound “Expediter” train 41 out of Savanna, Illinois, on the afternoon of October 13, 1990. The first few rebuilds of GP30s into GP39Ms by Morrison-Knudsen in 19... (more)

For several years, Canadian National’s route to Chicago from the northwest was via trackage rights over Burlington Northern, with this changing over to Wisconsin Central trackage rights and even... (more)

A recently refurbished SD60 sits in the late afternoon sun just east of the diamonds in Savanna. Ex-SOO 6024 (b/d 3/89).

BN train 103 cruises along the Mississippi River just west of Savanna, Illinois, on the afternoon of April 7, 1990. BN GP39M No. 2830 is former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy EMD GP30 No. 944 built ... (more)

The evening Seattle stack flies along the Mississippi River with four of BNs attention grabbing GEs up front… seen here from the Mississippi Palisades State Park.

On the autumn day of October 25, 1992, a Burlington Northern taconite ore train headed for Granite City, near East St. Louis, follows the bank of the Mississippi River at Savanna, Illinois. The mi... (more)