A pair of CN wide cabs, including one unit in a faded black and gray striped scheme, brings a train of empty hoppers out of the "clean coal" Prairie State Energy Campus.

After a crew change, rebuilt GE accelerates north with a bare table train.

After changing pilot crews and posing with employees and family, UP 4014 heads north towards St. Louis.

A manifest heads south ahead of the line of approaching morning thunderstorms.

Barges deliver limestone rock to load onto hoppers to be moved by the KRPD for interchange with CN at Lenzburg, IL. The KRPD switches the 40 cars loaded with limestone onto the CN interchange sou... (more)

Barges deliver limestone rock to load onto hoppers to be moved by the KRPD for interchange with CN at Lenzburg, IL. The CN takes the limestone to be used by the Prairie State Energy Campus to &qu... (more)

Barges deliver limestone rock to load onto hoppers to be moved by the KRPD for interchange with CN at Lenzburg, IL. The CN takes the limestone to be used by the Prairie State Energy Campus to &qu... (more)

An empty grain train heads south on the St. Louis District of the former Illinois Central mainline to DuQuoin, IL.

After three previous trips in less than month as a trailing unit on NS Train 224, NS 8098 is leading 224 at track speed as it knocks down the signal in Sturgeon, MO.

NS 8098 leads an older Dash-8 cousin, an SD70ACC and an SD40e on the point of train 223 as it approaches the west end of the yard at the GM Wentzville assembly plant.

After changing crews, the southbound manifest passes the former Missouri Pacific Signals guarding the south end of the crossover.

A pair of IC SD70s soldier on waiting at the south end of Neoga siding for northbound Amtrak 390, Saluki, and northbound counterpart A407 to pass before continuing to Effingham, IL.

A CN Gevo and EMDX "Blackberry" depart the south end of Centralia Yard

The northbound Saluki heads toward Chicago with a consist of Superliners. The same trainset came south on Monday with the newly reinstated train #393, The Illini.

The Canadian National crew aboard a grain train, led by a pair of veteran EMD units, waits for authority from the Union Pacific to enter the former Cotton Belt Yard.