An eastbound manifest comes through Rochelle heading to Proviso.

2 warbonnets lead an eastbound intermodal under the CBQ signals in Rochelle.

UP 8353 leads a very cool consist through Rochelle. The UP Geneva line is usually home to exclusively UP widecab engines. However, a BCOL dash 9 and CSX SD60 find themselves in the consist today.

Having just arrived at the railfan park, it was nice to hear a train horn off in the distance. Having the first train of the day with UP 2001 on the head made it better.

A westbound stack train departs just as a container train headed in the same direction passes the intermodal facility.

A pair of EMDs pulls a long string of Pacer Stacktrain containers out of the intermodal terminal.

Detector car.

Ten engines lead a stack train out of Global 3, passing the railroad park.

BNSF 2867 leads the Del Monte Local through Rochelle, headed east.

UP 4500 leads an eastbound autorack through Rochelle.

A trio of recently re-activated BN SD60Ms heads east through Rochelle on its way to the CSX at Barr Yard.

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)

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)