Snow Flurries are flying around on this cold and windy New Years Eve Day, 2023 as another pair of IC SD70's thunder over the CSX diamonds at Effingham, IL. bringing CN train A408 southbound to Cen... (more)
Another cloudy, cold and super windy morning on the Canadian National in Illinois as train A408 rumbles south through Humboldt with the 2nd pair of Illinois Central SD70's for the day.
After holding for three Metra’s at 16th Street, and for Amtrak 391 to head south… CN M337 with a duo of Illinois Central SD70’s, #1035 and #1032 get underway past 18th Street on home Illinoi... (more)
Its the first day of Spring and Joliet Yard is loaded with IC SD70's on this nice evening.
Q117 hogs the main at CP Turner while getting a recrew, while L509 sneaks around it through the siding with a whopping 5 tankers for Aux Sable. A pair of classic black Illinois Central SD70s lead ... (more)
IC 1035 leads the L509 into Grundy County at County Line Road. A Dakota and Iowa SD40-2 is ridding along and will be set out at the Motive Power Resource shop in Minooka.
IC 1035, 1000, and 1020 roll back into Markham Yard to retrieve their train before departing for Gary Indiana.
A trio of IC SD70 begins to exit the Mainline of Mid-America for The J at Matteson as it continues its trip to Kirk Yard.
IC 1035 does the honors of train L531 as it passes under the elevator and prepares to blast through the small village of Pesotum. Aside from the CN unit, this was a very common sight to see throug... (more)
IC SD70 1035 and CN SD60 5408 sit on Jasper's shop track. They'll be used later on today on an X348.
An extra out of Jasper speeds east at Henry House behind a surprising lashup of IC 1035 and CN 5408.
Well the weather outside is reminding us winter is around the corner. Hopefully a snowy winter is ahead for photography in Iowa. Back in 2010 winter hit hard on the Omaha Sub in early January. The... (more)
A dirty IC SD70 idles on Jasper's "shop" track waiting to be lifted by a set of coal empties for duties on the Alberta Coal Branch.
Three days later, the same IC SD70 prepares to depart Hawthorne on M337.
M337 heads west through 16th Street on a beautiful sunny afternoon.
