The CN-IC Santa Special arrives in Gibson City with great anticipation!
Alliance Grain Company is the owner of this Plymouth locomotive, sitting on what was once part of the Wabash mainline through Gibson City, Illinois. While the Bloomer Lines red locomotives pull la... (more)
Alliance Grain Co. Plymouth 30 ton stands ready
GTW 5853 and its Canadian counterpart Cn 5844 head into the Grain elavator
CN-IC's Santa Special makes it approach into Gibson City on this cold December morning.
A pair of repainted GTW GP38-2's double team a lengthy manifest past the former IC Gibson City depot, now used as a MoW base like everything else.
Bloomer 7591 winds the train through town negotiating the tight right hand curves with ease.
The Santa Train waits at its first stop - Gibson City, IL. Note the moon still high in the bright winter morning sky.
First stop of its 2006 we find the Illinois Central 101 in downtown Gibson City , Il
The CN Santa Train makes its first stop of the day at Gibson City.
2 old IC geeps throttle up toward a green signal as they lead the local into the setting sun.
The Bloomer’s collection of GPs hang out just north of Gibson City and look sweet in this CB&Q inspired paint scheme.
The conductor of this Bloomer job rides out the storm as they switch out cars in the Gibson City yard.
The snow is really coming down as a Bloomer geep 10 spots a cut of grain cars at a local elevator to be loaded.
