The last Elgin, Joliet & Eastern SD38-2 still wearing its ''J Ball'' logo, the 662 has just come in from Mt. Pulaski with an empty grain train bound for Heyworth, Illinois. EJ&E 654, on the Hartw... (more)

Passing the distant signal for the ICE crossing.

Coal train with EJE power on the point passing an old B&O switch.

Built as Reserve Mining 1239, later became GATX 1239 and LLPX 2803 before being sold to IAIS. The 154 still wearing its LLPX paint sits in Iowa City IA on a nice October day, the 154 was painted i... (more)

Empties heading back to Kirby

An extra grain train has just come out of Cedar Rapids and heads west past a MOW ballast train tied down on the siding at Marengo.

Working the east end today is EJ&E 661. It leads a lengthy cut of cars out for headroom.

Cumberland Mine, which is actually in Kirby PA, empties head back to the mines to load up on that black gold, and then bring it back to the Mon River for unloading onto barges. The cold weather h... (more)

The empty CMYX train has just rolled across bridge 2 and starts into the S-curve.

With the train emptied at the dock the empties return west past the large rock cut outside of Mapletown. Extremely large icicles line the rock cut from end to end and also feature a small waterfal... (more)

The sun has just came out from above the tree tops as the empty Cumberland mine train leans into the small curved bridge in Mapletown as it heads for the mine in Kirby.

NCRC 2002, 2001, & 1024.

It's funny in retrospect how wild everybody was going back in Summer 2009 over the reappearance of the BLE SD38s. Many people believed it was the last time we would ever see the engines again. Two... (more)

The midnight shift crew heads back to the mine for another load of coal. The weekend crews are called Weekend Warriors due to the fact that they work 12 hours shifts and make 3 round trips from th... (more)