There's a little bit of everything from dash 8's to early geeps in the rotating collection at National Railway Equipment Silvis.

Former BN SD40-2 7285 (now owned by the NREX), still in its Cascade green paint, leads HBR 5008 and 90 cars through Oswego, headed back west to Ottawa.

Brand new National Railway Equipment 2GS14B sits idle at the NREX shops in Mt. Vernon Illinois

More foreign power on yet another ethanol train, racing west above the marina.

Long lines of engines wait there fate in the NREX yard at Silvis.

DM&E, more like land of the leasers... NREX 7370 and CITX 3081 have a short #277 on a sunny thursday evening as they head for the DM&E Waseca Sub.

A cascade green dash 2 heads a lengthy #271 through my neighborhood on a Sunny afternoon.

With over a mile worth of train behind the power they are still pulling hard with most of the train still on the up hill side.

Passing a MILW Depot the arch is over line that went to Austin,MN and was the original line to St Paul,MN before the River Sub was in.

Two of the three SD40-2s that came west on the previous day's 297 head back east from Glenwood with train 170. The horn on the former BN leaser sounded a little sick as they whistled for the one ... (more)

NREX 7931, ICE 6458, CITX 3172, DME 6084, DME 6370, and CITX 2804 make quite the rainbow on this 120+ car train #277 approaching the tiny town of Uitca.

Spring is here, and things are getting greener! Six dash-2's create the rainbow effect, dragging a monster train #277 through Lewiston on a lovely March afternoon.

The Ratrod of locomotives--out in the cold collecting icicles, this former SP SD9 sits on a siding on the Marshall sub.

An ex-C&NW/UP SD60 leads a sister and thousands of tons of northbound coal up the hill out of Attica toward the crossing with CSX.