UP 8791 leads a double stack train under the coaling tower in De Kalb, Illinois, shortly before losing its air.

A westbound intermodal train passes the coal dock at DeKalb, Illinois.

UP 4043 highballs west through De Kalb, with a manifest.

Eastbound and westbound, K Line doublestacks meet just east of the De Kalb coaling tower.

A pair of SD40-2's haul a freight through Illinois corn fields. An interesting flat car load behind the locomotives.

Wings on a flat car are placed behind the SD40-2 and GP40 combination. They speed along the Illinois prairie as a heavy storm starts to move into the area.

UP6727 (AC44CW) followed by ex-SP UP6174 (AC44CW) pulls their HUGE MWGX, Midwest Generation, LLC coal train Eastbound under the coaling tower in DeKalb. The DPU was ex-SP UP6360, it was working h... (more)

A colorful stack train heads west through De Kalb, passing some annoying wayside horns.

A solo SD70M hauls a long sting of empty well cars, headed for the Global III intermodal facility at Rochelle.

A relic from days gone by dwarfs UP SD70M 4049 sitting at De Kalb.

A barge struck BNSF's Mississippi River bridge in Burlington, IA the day before forcing Amtrak's California Zephyr to detour over the Union Pacific from Chicago to Omaha. #5 detoured only once ov... (more)

Rollby at the coal chute with the UP 8545 west.

A day after the tragic shooting on the campus of NIU, the UP ran an inspection special east through DeKalb with the DD40X and 10 cars. The tall building in the background to the right of the coal... (more)

UP 7701 heads west on the 'right main' for the CNW just before sunset on 10/21/2007 at De Kalb, IL. It was passing a freight which had just passed on the 'wrong main' only minutes before.

An Operation Lifesaver special returns to Proviso after a quick trip out to Global III near Rochelle.