A sunny 22'F day was tempered by stiff winds as this BNSF stack train gets up to speed about two miles west of Willow Springs. The trademark Sante Fe line of poles on the inside of the curve.
Sante Fe caboose on the Argonne run out of Hodgkins. A year later, in the Fall of 2006, the windows were plated over with steel and another bit of railroading faded into history.