A loaded coal train ducks under the coaling tower at De Kalb as it heads east towards Chicago.

Heritage meets Heritage...

The colors of early dawn are cracking to the east, silhouetting the old steam-era concrete coaling tower still spanning the Chicago & North Western’s main line through De Kalb, Illinois, on Marc... (more)

One of UP's new tier 4 locomotives and a SD40N take MPRCB west under the old Chicago and NorthWestern coal tower in DeKalb, Illinois.

Eastbound Z through downtown Dekalb.

UP 4711 flies eastbound through downtown Dekalb en-route to Chicago.

Eastbound Bird through Dekalb

A westbound intermodal train rolls under the former C&NW coaling tower at De Kalb, Illinois.

Eastbound Ethanol on a nice Sunday morning

The UP Troy Grove job going through Dekalb on the UP Troy Grove Sub.

An eastbound intermodal train passes beneath the main line coaling tower in DeKalb. Time and technology have rendered the massive structure useless.

A pair of C&NW C44-9Ws blast by the depot at De Kalb with an IG3CH transfer to CSX at 59th Street.

CNW 878 with an eastbound manifest meets The Falcon, train 245, CNW's premier intermodal train near the mainline coaling tower at De Kalb, Ill. I rode train 245 from Wood St. Yard, Chicago to the ... (more)

A Chicago and North Western eastbound, with a UP SD60M on the point, thunders underneath the imposing coaling tower at De Kalb, Illinois, at sunset on September 17, 1994.