PREX 1608 sits tied down in Cisco, next to an old John Deere tractor.
PREX 1750, one of the last F-units still in freight service, sits tied down with its train in Mapleton, IL.
NS 21A heads out of Dawn with the Original NS heritage unit on the head end.
Cargill GP9R 913 sits at their elevator in Gibson City, still wearing its original WSOR paint.
While the CNW's been gone for 20 years now, their "bar and ball" logo, lives on, in places such as on the side of this Andersons 1973-vintage hopper.
KBSR 701 sits south of the elevator lead at Sheldon, waiting to shove back in to pick up 25 loads to take to Tate & Lyle in Lafayette, Indiana.
Union Pacific's Riverfront Local heads to switch industries, with a long hood forward GP60 leading the way as it trundles down the 10 mile-per-hour branchline and past the businesses on the Riverf... (more)
A UP GP40-2 and HLCX GP38-2 team up with UP's Villa Grove local, the LSB50, as it heads south through the small town of Block.
The famous Missouri Pacific "screaming eagle" logo, as seen on the side of a covered hopper on a UP grain train earlier this week.
A blotchy, faded C44-9WL leads a recently repainted sister and a C40-8M on a northbound manifest through Tolono, and on to Champaign and points northward.
IC SD40-2R 6071, built from the first SD40 ever built (EMDX 434), sits at the Monticello Railway Museum with a GM&O caboose, next to a vintage wig-wag crossing signal.
NKP 765 leads the Joliet Rocket around the curve at New Lenox, Illinois.
NS 35N heads through Tolono on a beautiful June day, with freshly restored MOTX (St. Louis Museum of Transportation) DDA40X 6944 in tow.
A BNSF ES44DC leads an eastbound intermodal train past the Rochelle Railroad Park on a nice March morning.
A UP SD70M and SP patched AC44CW lead UP ZYCMX through Sidney, IL, this afternoon.