A pair of rebuilt SDs team with an SD40 to take coal empties south, as empty grain hoppers head in the opposite direction.

A lone SD40-2, pulls potash cars. They would soon attach an EOTD and leave

Norfolk Southern No. 207 speeds past a westbound freight in the siding at Tolono, Illinois, on October 11, 1995. The westbound intermodal is led by EMD GP50 No. 7091, while the freight is powered ... (more)

After waiting for CN's M335 to cross the Tolono diamond, Loudon, TN bound grain NS train 46G continues east on the Lafayette District.

CN ET44AC 3008 leads Memphis, TN - Gary, IN train M335 across NS' Lafayette District at Tolono, IL. NS 46G waits in the distance.

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

Finding a spot of sunlight, the NS 2648 heads Eastbound.

NS 21A heads out of Dawn with the Original NS heritage unit on the head end.

Manifest freight M342 knocks down the LED signals at North Tuscola on Canadian National's Champaign Subdivision. With two ES44ACs on the front, this train won't struggle on its southbound trip thr... (more)

NS 145 eases by a westbound approach signal at Martin on the Lafayette District, as it will hold at Tolono for a southbound CN train. Nothing in this shot was long for this world, as this would be... (more)

The veteran Wabash signals still stand guarding the west side of CP Dawn. Having survived two mergers and over 50 years, their time for replacement has come, with NS opting to replace them as they... (more)

With a trio of GEs on the point, Norfolk Southern intermodal train, 21T, gets up to speed out of the Dawn siding at Tolono, splitting the endangered searchlights. Not only is there Wabash-era sear... (more)

The Wabash Cannonball A Roger Puta Photograph

Triple Crowns roll west during the golden hour, approaching the diamond with the former Illinois Central in Tolono.

NS 9936 leads NS 255, a roadrailer west through Tolono, about to slam the CN diamonds.