Canadian Pacific assembled a short train with 2 SD-40-2 to open line between Savanna and Elgin Il which had not see a train for over a day due to heavy snow.

Canadian Pacific had not run a train for over a day on their line from Savanna to Elgin so they assembled a short train with a pair of SD-40-2's to open the line. Train is plowing drifts east of D... (more)

On a gloomy afternoon, a CP work train preforms a shove from Genoa to Davis Junction with two of CPs finest EMDs for power.

Canadian Pacific had not run a train for over a day on their line from Savanna to Elgin so they assembled a short train with a pair of SD-40-2's to open the line. Train is plowing through a cut u... (more)

The rain and cold temps were relentless, but that didn't stop the dozen photographers on Route 72 from documenting the Royal Canadian Pacific business train, making its way west out of Davis Junct... (more)

A June 10, 1984, view from Illinois Highway 251 overpass sees an eastbound Milwaukee Road freight departing Davis Junction led by three EMD SD40-2s.

After being woken up by a friend telling me we needed to go, I hear the sound of cars running past his house. They are grabbing their cameras and throwing their shoes on and my eyes are barely ope... (more)

ICE 4207 switches Davis Junction, IL in May of 2009.

CP 5030 highballs it out of Davis Junction, IL with CP 473 in tow through the thick and wet snowfall.

This was a rather interesting day on the CP Chicago Sub...CP was running a day behind with the 473 manifest. So what they did is run the train halfway across the Chicago Subdivision and drop it of... (more)

CP 472 arrives in Davis Junction with NS Dash 9-40C #8813 leading the way. It will soon perform its work and meet CP 2225, at this time sitting in the siding with a rail train that will head west ... (more)

CP 2225 and SOO 4409 lead a welded rail train in Davis Junction, IL, about to head onto the west leg of the wye. The SOO had been leading the train long hood forward as it laid rail out by Stillma... (more)

SOO 4409 unhooks from a rail train that had been laying rail out by Stillman Valley and prepares to enter the west leg of the Davis Junction wye, while the conductor monitors the movement on the r... (more)

As the snow falls over Northern Illinois, i find myself chasing CP 473 with a ECO leader. Here it is seen rounding the curve west of Davis Junction passing under the IL Rt. 72 bridge

KCS 4156 heads west into Davis Junction to perform some switching.