The Chicago, IL, to Los Angelus, CA, premium stack train blasts west out of Ft. Madison with a match set of GP60M's. This train is about to pass under highway 61 few miles west of Ft. Mad.

Run thru Conrail power has this westbound auto parts train on the BNSF rolling past the intermediate signal just west of Revere. Revere is located just 23 miles west of Ft. Madison, IA.

BNSF 7554 leads a speeding intermodal train westbound just outside La Plata, MO on a warm New Years Eve.

UP 8457 leads the AGBML 23 flying down BNSF's Marceline Sub a few miles west of WB Junction, where the NS Kansas City District joins the BNSF in route to KC. The NS again splits off at CA Jct and ... (more)

A trio of GEVO's leads a long intermodal train (with two more GEVO's pushing on the rear) down the Transcon into the tiny town of La Plata, MO.

The Southwest Chief blast thru the crossovers at Argyle in the late evening. Couple BNSF Z-trains are in a holding pattern on Main #2 while the Dispatcher keeps the silver streak moving on time we... (more)

The uniformity of an empty grain train gleams in the morning sunlight. This empty is east of Wyaconda rolling east towards Galesburg and points north.

A Union Pacific trackage rights train rolls west at sunrise west of West Medill. UP has few pairs of trains that run over the BNSF east of Kansas City to Chicago or Edelstein.

An Eddyville, IA, loaded corn syrup train is bound for the west as they pass thru the control point at Argyle. Alot of these trains go to Coke-A-Cola for soda pop making. This train is running in ... (more)

An empty grain train bound for the CN at East Dubuque, IL, rolls downhill thru the control point at Gorin. This train is bound for loading at Ida Grove, IA, and will head east to Galesburg on the ... (more)

With a new crew on board, this westbound Q-train takes off from Ft. Madison on main #2. The BNSF uses the Ft. Madison yard as a block swap for alot of stack train east and westbound. As you can se... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight train is in heavy dynamics as they bring their train to a stop at East Baring to let Amtrak #4 around them. Here they pass West Baring control point, and untouched Santa ... (more)

A local farmer works on his plow as a westbound Z-train passes the signals at MP 241. This train has just departed from a Ft. Madison crew change 7 miles back. Most of the ex-Santa Fe intermediate... (more)

The Southwest Chief takes off from the Ft. Madison station stop a couple minutes late. Now the train will roar west across the Marceline Sub for the 217 mile trip to Kansas City, MO, which will is... (more)

The Southwest Chief rolls east on Main #1 as it rounds up a eastbound BNSF freight at Baring. Here the train passes under the classic Santa Fe signal bridge in danger of replacement with the new P... (more)