NS 611 holds the main to NS's Brooklyn District while waiting to make a poke out of A.O. Smith yard in Granite City, Illinois Locomotives: NS 611, NS 4656

An Illini Terminal GP40 sits in the morning sun at the port in Granite City. This was a Milwaukee Road Bandit now repainted.

BNSF 8435 pulls a coke train through the heavily industrialized area near the US Steel plant in Granite City, Illinois.

RRC 2064 rests after switching cars in Granite City.

UP 7622 continues north on the KCS (ex GWWR) under a small rainbow from a pop up shower in Granite City, Illinois. Locomotives: UP 7622 & UP 7511

A Foster Townsend Rail Logistics SW 1500 receives some attention near the harbor in Granite City. The locomotive is still in Manufacturer's Railway colors.

This FTRL SW1500 is shuffling some grain cars at Granite City.

A remote control unit shuffles gons around in the yard outside US Steel's Granite city works. Most of the mill is very quiet except for this one movement due to USS "banking" most of the mills ope... (more)

The second of two ballast trains that were headed north on to the UP main near WR Tower in Granite City.

An SD70M leads a Herzog ballast train north past WR Tower junction in Granite, City.

A pair of Terminal Railroad GP38-3s prepare to shove a load of coiled steel back into the yard at US Steel's Granite City Works.

After a brief summer storm that has passed through Granite City, IL. NS DA01 is waiting on the US Steel / Granite City Works line with a line of empty coil cars, and gondolas waiting for the Inter... (more)

Traveled all the way from Texas to see this beauty and boy did i get lucky to see it setting in a prime spot for this roster shot.

Northbound Gulf, Mobile & Ohio's train 4 The Limited led by EMD E7A 100 and E8A 100A, makes a stop at the Granite City station, Illinois. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer list... (more)