An intriguing maze of tracks and bridges at the junction.
Wearing Her Sixth Uniform... IAIS GP38-2 712 & IAIS SD38-2 151 switch cars around Burr Oak Yard as they build BISI-03. IAIS 712 started her career as Penn Central 7994.
Numerical GEVO's... Iowa Interstate ES44AC's 510 & 511 sit crew less at Burr Oak Yard on BICB-03.
Power rests at Blue Island Yard while out of service highlinners awaits their fate.
UP 1988, "The Katy" heritage engine, leads ethanol train K425 east on track 1 while a freight catches up on track 2. It was a race through Blue Island!
The Southern Pacific heritage unit leads ZDLSKP through Blue Island Junction, preparing to make the transition from IHB to CSX rails.
IHB's only SD38-2 and a former Conrail Dash 8 hold at CP Francisco in Blue Island.
UP 3845 leads an eastbound ore train from the CSX Barr Sub onto the CSX Elsdon Sub, the former GT at Blue Island Junction.
CSX 4839 leads an eastbound manifest from the IHB onto the CSX Barr Sub at Blue Island Junction.
At Blue Island, Illinois, there are four large bridges that span the Calumet-Saganashkee Channel. On a cold January 18th, 2016, BNSF train Q-FTMCXO3-16, a Guaranteed Service Intermodal, which ori... (more)
Iowa Interstate Blue Island to Council Bluffs road train is pulling out of former Rock Island yards passing Vermont Ave Station.
IAIS 718 backs over the Cal Sag Channel at Blue Island Junction.
NIRC SW1 1, the oldest operating diesel in revenue service outside of a museum in the country, heads light past the Blue Island electric depot.
Eastbound CNW to BOCT transfer passing through Blue Island crossing from IHB main to BOCT main headed for B&O yard