A clean BNSF ACe disrupts the peace and quiet of morning in Mendota as the horn blares and reverberates off the buildings in town. At left is the CB&Q 4978, a 2-8-2 steamer that spends its days o... (more)

The radiance of the morning sun lights up an eastbound coal load as it ducks under one of the remaining CB&Q bridges at MP 75.3 on the Mendota Subdivision. As unfortunate as it is, these signals ... (more)

Stars, planets and the depths of space have always fascinated me. Here one interest meets another as an approach signal glows at CP 307 while Orion's Belt, joined by a company of other stars, shi... (more)

After a long day of prevalent cloud cover, the sun made an appearance to provide some sweet lighting throughout the evening, especially for eastbound Q378 with a pair of EMD narrow cabs taking com... (more)

A pair of GEVO's race east across the Painesville Trestle on the point of 22K, towering high above the Grand River.

The always hot Q110 blasts eastbound through Willoughby, splitting the automatic signal brackets at QD 164 with a trio of GE's at the helm.

After waiting in the siding for 14M and 310 to pass, rack train 287 gets back underway, stomping across the NKP trestle over Conneaut Creek and the B&LE right-of-way.

Wheeling's Glenwillow-Akron makeup meanders past the frozen swamps west of Aurora by the Old Mill Road grade crossing. The Kodachrome 2662 in the lead is on borrowed time, as the 2679 has already... (more)

"Q11005 has a clear signal... CP 13. Track number one east, CSXT 5-3-8-2 out." A familiar voice not recently heard came in on the radio on this cold, rainy day in March as conductor Billy "Old ... (more)

A vibrant sunrise greets the 19th of February at Rochelle as a single DPU shoves on the end of UP's eastbound K Line container train.

A BNSF Dash 9 singlehandedly lugs a string of autoracks eastbound past the Rochelle Railroad Park on a clear winter morning. During the summer, the shade in the foreground would be a greatly valu... (more)

Four UPY GP15-1's lead a westbound local into the golden evening sun just outside of Earlville. This was a surprise catch for my friends and I, as we were lucky to have heard this movement gettin... (more)

It's 2:30 in the morning, and most of eastern, rural Illinois is quiet as a mouse... With the exception of Rochelle, of course, which is booming with railroad activity. Here we see a westbound f... (more)

A true powerhouse leads a UP mixed bag west through the small town of Malta. Second in consist is UP 1988, the Katy heritage unit, followed by an assortment of older EMD power.

A UP stack train bound for Global IV slowly makes its way east through Rochelle. Sandwiched between a pair of armor yellow widecabs is a Ferromex GEVO.