Alot of railroaders were on this weed spraying extra which was led by a freshly painted CN GP40 widecab. Today, we had 3 trains in about an hour, and usually in a day we have 2 through freights in... (more)

L56191 has just come back from Rockford. The conductor is walking towward the CN Freeport Yard Office. You can see the old ROCK ISLAND "R" rear of the locomotive, to the right of the "GT" logo. It... (more)

GTW 5949 is on the point of CN train M33891-28, on April 28th, 2006. The cars toward the end of the train (left side of photo) are curving down toward West Jct.

Yet another IC EMD unit with a GE sticker working the switch job based out of Freeport (FURBALL).

A VERY big point of interest is that Licence Plate, or half of licence plate in the middle of the truck! Also, note the kids icon Barney tied to the front of this locomotive.

A point of interest on IC 9618 is the GE sticker towards the front of the unit.

A widecab CN unit (kind of rare around these parts) leads 2 GTWs. One is the last GTW SD40 (5925) and one is just an old GP38.

IC 1020 leads a rather interesting lashup. Things to note: Lead unit IC 1020 has a newer right front ditch light, the second unit, CN 9544, is very beat up , and the GTW 5816 has the RC lights mou... (more)

The now retired GTW 5922 sits at rest in Wallace Yard.

M33891 at Wallace Yard. The engineer is opening the coupler on the lead unit on his way up to the cab.

M338 is tied down at Freeport waiting for a new crew. Note the ex-CCP Freeport station sign.

The Freeport local crew, Jim and Jerry (the most friendly raiload workers I've ever met!) step down from their good old GTW SD40-2 after another long day. Note the snow on the plow, I figured it w... (more)

M338 sits and waits to start working in the yard, the conductor can be seen at right looking at a few cars in the yard

M338 idles waiting for the outbound crew to take it to Chicago. A rare unit in consist today is NS 2696 an SD70M-2, and also a recently painted IC 6200

After picking up 2 units from yesterdays empty grain train 338 now has 6 units(IC 1025, IC 2700, GCFX 6077, GTW 6401, WC 6598, IC 2703).