A kirk Yard local enroute to Champaign rolls south with an unusual consist. The rear 2 units are badorder, so the consist has the lone GE running backwards as only working power. Here the train po... (more)

The northbound City of New Orleans rolls out of Gilman enroute to 9am arrival at Union Station. The train is seen here dwarfed by the coaling towers on the north end of Gilman still left along the... (more)

Southbound Amtrak Saluki train rolls thru the small town of Onarga, about 5 miles south of Gilman. The next stop for 391 is Champaign, IL, at 10:25am. This train operates to Carbondale, IL.

An evening thunderstorm is passing east over northern Illinois putting on quite the lighting show. The lighting spend over hour spreading out across the night sky making for easy photography. The ... (more)

The morning CP hotshot out of Minneapolis, MN, rolls east near MP 48, south of WEPCO, near Pleasant Prairie. The train will soon be crossing into Illinois for the remaining miles into Bensenville ... (more)

Some might think getting trains on the UP East-West main at sunset might be easy, well most days it isn't, but today I lucked out to have this eastbound Council Bluffs to Proviso freight train rol... (more)

Some might think getting trains on the UP East-West main at sunset might be easy, well most days it isn't, but today I lucked out to have this eastbound Council Bluffs to Proviso freight train rol... (more)

Westbound auto track train bask in the afternoon sun as it passes west of Calamus in Eastern Iowa. The train is passing thru the control Point at A032, West Calamus.

The sun is about done for the the day as the NS begins moving trains again after D1G picking up grain at Sadorus, and D91 doing local work at Tolono, had the NS at a stop for about a hour. There i... (more)

An eastbound autorack train rolls east towards Clinton at sunset.

CN hotshot Q-train is running late this morning due to power problems. The rear GE is dead, leaving only this old SD60 power this 9500 foot train bound for Markham Yard, in Chicago. The train is s... (more)

NS local pulls into the siding at Tolono to work. This job will have a couple stops on the west side of Tolono, then will run around their train and head back east.

The local grain sweeper is pulling out of the elevator track at Sandorus. Next is to air test and then blast off back to Decatur with this small grain train. Sandorus is located about 10 miles Wes... (more)

The local grain sweeper has just left Sandorus heading back to Decatur with a small grain train. Sandorus is located about 10 miles West of Tolono.

A pair of IC SD70's southbound thru Gilman on this Toronto to Memphis freight train. Mornings on the CN north of Champaign can be busy if trains are running late southbound. Usually couple south a... (more)