GTW 5849 shoves a boxcar of newsprint across the diamond and towards the loading bay of the Decatur Herald & Review.

CN R902, the Humko Local, heads across Springfield Avenue with its train in tow, as it heads down the remote Champaign branchline to switch out various industries. It's an odd day for the R902... (more)

NS SW1001 2102 pulls retired GP38AC 2843 onto the turntable before pushing it onto a shop track. It's not every day one can see two locomotives of this vintage together on a Class 1! The 2102 i... (more)

A variety of BNSF power sits in Springfield Yard waiting for the call to duty, including most notably an ex-Santa Fe GP50 and an executive SD70MAC. If you squint hard enough, you might be able to ... (more)

NS 957, the Illinois Division Christmas train, heads out of Decatur and towards Illiopolis during its last run of the day, with WAB F7A 1189 and CN FPA-4 6789 leading on one end, and special NS SD... (more)

Not your typical long hood...AgRail 35 has a protrusion in its long hood which originates from its BM days, where the box held equipment to provide electrical power to the commuter trains it pulle... (more)

Two BC Rail units, a C44-9WL and a C40-8M, lead CN A497 south through Tuscola, Illinois. It's not often that you see two BCOL-painted units together, with there only being 26 units left in their i... (more)

ADMX 2311 sits outside of ADM's railcar repair facility in Decatur. The 2311 used to work here before suffering a fire, which led to it being put on display outside. 2311 is the number of the addr... (more)

The trackmobile at Premier Co-Operative's elevator in Sidney heads back in the elevator with a cut of hoppers to be loaded. With harvest season comes the grain trains, and the trackmobile is back ... (more)

A recently acquired ex-CSX SD40-2 and an ex-DMIR SD-M sit at the Vermillion Valley RR complex in Olin, IN. Photo taken on private property with permission and supervision.

Premier Co-Operative's Thomasboro switcher, still marked for former elevator operator FFGC, sits at their elevator in Thomasboro. Photo taken on Premier Co-Operative property with permission.

Cargill S-4 1528 sits at the end of their tracks, with an unknown future. Having been displaced by CLCX S-2M 9698 roughly a year ago, it has sat down here ever since.

Bloomer Line GP9 7591, the first engine ever rostered by the BLOL, sits at the Alliance Grain elevator in downtown Gibson City.

The years have not been kind to the faded, patchy CN C40-8M leading a unit empty windmill blade train towards Colorado, down Union Pacific's Villa Grove Sub on a nice November day.

NS 956 heads into the sunset with its two IAIS Geeps, and two IAIS business cars.