NS 957, the Illinois Division Christmas Train, heads towards WABIC with SD60Es 6920 (Honoring Our Veterans) and 911 (Honoring Our First Responders) leading. Quite the train on quite the day of rai... (more)
Two GE Genesis locomotives lead the California Zephyr into Galesburg.
Two BC Rail units, a C44-9WL and a C40-8M, lead CN A497 south through Tolono, Illinois. It's not often that you see two BCOL-painted units together, with there only being 26 units left in their ic... (more)
Two GP9 variants, an original ex-BN/NP unit and a rebuilt ex-CN unit, sit on the VVRR property waiting for their next call to service. Photo taken on VVRR property with permission and supervision.
An NS autorack train heads out of Sidney, IL with a Dash 9 standard cab on the head end. With the AC44C6M rebuild program set to ramp up production in 2017, who knows for how much longer we'll be ... (more)
NS 956 heads towards Bement, with two IAIS Geeps and the two IAIS business cars, Abraham Lincoln and Hawkeye.
NS 7030 leads NS 957, a special ferry move for N&W Y6a 2156 returning to Saint Louis from Roanoke, around the bend at Unity, just outside of Sidney, IL.
After losing one of their units, UP MPRNLX made a rather interesting move at Block Siding, picking up a trailing unit from the MFWPR it was meeting. Here, the power from the MPRNLX backs up and ap... (more)
KBSR GP38-2M 705 waits at the south end of the Darrow elevator with three loaded plastic pellet hoppers, while another crew picks up 47 loaded grain hoppers to attach to the rear of this train.
IBCX GP9R 4618, a freshly rebuilt Geep of GTW and CV heritage, sits in its Camp Chase livery on the property of sister railroad Vermilion Valley, who rebuilt the unit.
NS DD03 shoves in a cut of hoppers for interchange to CSX, with the conductor riding the shove.
A UP SD70M, with it's flag-waving paint scheme, flies past Sidney, IL on Independence Day.
Two P42DCs lead the northbound 392 through the small town of Tolono on the way to Champaign, and eventually Chicago. These trains normally run with only one P42, so it was quite the surprise to se... (more)
A UP SD40N has somehow made its way out of the yard and onto the point of this UP grain train, headed south through Block on a beautiful July morning.
A GLC extra heads out of Durand, to go pick up cars from CSX.
