A pair of CF7's belonging to Illinois Railway (formerly Illinois Railnet) idle in LaSalle the morning after a snowstorm.

An empty coal train with a solid cream and green lashup barrels west past an old church house preserved as part of a museum in downtown Mendota.

A Metra set heads back to the yard after bringing in the last outbound of the night.

The DPU of a loaded coal train headed to Plaines power plant streaks by UD tower on a cold winter night.

A former Conrail geep 15 returns light after working the local job on the old Pennsy Panhandle.

The conductor of this Bloomer job rides out the storm as they switch out cars in the Gibson City yard.

A CN local with a pair of GTW geeps reverses through Gilman during a switch move.

A pair of GTW geep 38s works a local on the Mainline of Mid-America.

It's always nice to see a lashup without any CN power on the former IC.

The CN local holds the siding while a massive 10,000' southbound manifest led by a BNSF Dash 9 flies by on the main.

A former Conrail dash-8 leads a manifest south across the Kankakee River.

Still with its Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific herald intact with no other patches or subletterings, this snowplow somehow ended up deadlined on a Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern siding wi... (more)

That should buff out right away, no problem...

CN 6026 still waits to be scrapped on site nearly two months after the Thanksgiving Day collision between UP and NS trains at Momence. In the foreground there is part of the long hood of a Guilfor... (more)

The snow is really coming down as a Bloomer geep 10 spots a cut of grain cars at a local elevator to be loaded.