An empty Illinois Central coal train from Union Electric's West Labadie Generating Station is rolling off the east end of the MacAuthur Bridge and into the recently refurbished Valley Junction pla... (more)

CN L515 is working the Shared Assets interchange at East Yard in Hamtramck. The 5930 is a former MoPac SD40 that was recently included in local service out of Pontiac.

Seaboard System 8320 leads an eight unit lash-up upgrade with an empty hopper train on the Clinchfield Loops. The train has just crossed Peppers Creek Road crossing.

NdeM road freight pauses at the Saltillo passenger depot.

Two 1966-built SD40s are pushing an eastbound freight up the old B&O mainline, with a Vesuvian plume of smoke emanating from the ex-WM unit, No. 7572.

With four big EMDs for power, an FWWR Cresson Turn, symboled FWCR, crosses the road into Ash Grove Cement just south of Tower 60. The lead SD40, FWWR 2023, started life as SP 8455.

A pair of Grand Trunk Western SD40s bring a cut of coil steel cars through Griffith Interlocking. Tom Golden photo.

DWP SD40s 5907 and 5904 show off their red, white and blue near the yard office at Virginia, MN on a less than stellar June afternoon. Although readily identifiable as a CN affiliate, the scheme w... (more)

CN 5141 and 5198 wait with three other SD40s at Boston Bar, BC for their next assignment.

A pair of Grand Trunk Western SD40s are seen traversing a maze of tracks off the GTW mainline in Harvey. The Illinois Central Gulf's elevated mainline between Chicago and Homewood can be seen in ... (more)

An eastbound Canadian National train passes Burlington Northern’s depot at Rochelle, Illinois, on May 6, 1995. Unfortunately, the station was demolished in December 2007.

A CNW SD40 leads a Union Pacific C30-7 on a westbound manifest freight on the Indiana Harbor Belt at Calumet Park Interlocking. Note the damage to the fuel tank on the CNW unit. Tom Golden photo... (more)

CNW 883 leads train 406 through nice fall color on its trip south from Spooner, WI to Altoona at Sarona. This was part of the mainline from Superior to Eau Claire and on to Chicago and is now aban... (more)