IC 1022 bringing E271 down the Mainline of Mid-America. The scene here in Danforth, Illinois, is covered with old artifacts to make this frame look very similar to what it was back in the IC days.

IC 1027 leads south through Danforth on a beautiful March morning. To the right is the former depot that served the town back in the day. This stretch of the IC is really cool as almost every town... (more)

The trek to Centralia continues as IC 1021 flies through yet another small town in central Illinois. Danforth is a true Illinois Central town, founded in 1872 when the railroad came through.

A scene all too familiar in this part of the country, these old concrete grain elevators loom tall above the rails they serve. Danforth stands as no different, as they compliment this northbound m... (more)

L553 passes scrams though Danforth on its way back to Gilman.

IC 1000 leading L553 back South to Gilman from Otto on the former Illinois Central mainline.

Passing a trackside depression filled with spring rainwater, an Illinois Central freight heads northbound out of Danforth, Illinois, on the pleasant day of May 5, 1990.

CN C40-8M 2401 leads M399 south past the grain elevator in Danforth.

M336 is rolling right along through Danforth, passing the old depot in town.

Memphis, TN, to Winnipeg, MB, freight train rolls thru small town of Danforth a few miles north of Gilman. This train normally departs Champaign in the mid morning behind Q195 for the trip thru Ch... (more)

What looks like a CN train on CN tracks, is really the NS trackage rights train heading north towards Chicago with couple CN units. These units went to the NS on a potash train in Chicago, IL, and... (more)

M342 blast south thru the small town of Danforth after meeting 2 northbounds at Ashkum. M342 is around 55 miles north of Champaign, IL, as they make their way south on this warm breezy night on th... (more)

Built for the Southern Railway in January 1960 as a SD24 and their 6324 it was retired in 1978. Later rebuilt as a SD20, IC 2019 leads a southbound as it breaks the morning silence of the small c... (more)

Gone in a flash, Amtrak's southbound City of New Orleans streaks past the old Illinois Central depot in the tiny town of Danforth, IL, going every bit of 79mph here on the Mainline of Mid America.

A UP tunnel motor looks rather out of place sandwiched between two NS dash 9s on this northbound manifest on the old IC main.