UP ZCIG4 exercising their BNSF trackage rights as they head East on the Chillicothe Sub for Global 4 in Elwood, Illinois. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of these patched SP AC44s left on ... (more)

MCHIGAL coming into Ransom in the last little bits of sun of the day thanks to Summer haze and wildfire smoke.

A pair of H2 C44-9ws bringing a QCHIPEA West on the BNSF Transcon on a late Summer evening.

QCHIPEA for Texas passing by the large grain complex in Ransom, Illinois, along the Chillicothe Sub. This complex has a large train loop where they load unit grain trains.

A nice H2 duo leading a Westbound stack from BNSF Corwith Yard in Chicago towards Pearland, Texas.

L-CHI102 cooking through Ransom, IL in the last light of a March evening.

SCHILBE heading West through the large grain elevator complex in Ransom, Illinois.

A four pack of BNSF H4 EMDs leading M-CHIGAL through Ransom at track speed. This large grain facility was put up around 2005. They get a handful of unit grain trains a year.

With the loading of corn completed, the train is being prepared to depart FS Grain in Ransom.

The fall harvest is underway as a BNSF grain train is slowly wraps around the balloon track while being loaded at FS Grain in Ransom Illinois.

A five-pack of BNSF power is firing on all cylinders to get this high-priority train to points west. FS Grain, the main feature of Ransom, Illinois, towers over the scene.

L CHI105 highballs west through the small town of Ransom, passing the large grain elevator complex on a beautiful, summer evening. Leading the charge is a Cascade green SD40-2, #1706.

BNSF GP39E 2740, still wearing its Burlington Northern paint, leads the L-CHI105 westbound on the BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision ducking under the Ransom grain elevator.

Santa Feā€™s 198 train, running from Chicago to Los Angeles, curves through Ransom, Illinois, in the very last sunlight of April 16, 1994.

Amtrakā€™s westbound Southwest Chief, powered by a pair of GE B32BWH locomotives in ā€œPepsi Canā€ colors, flies through Ransom, Illinois, on May 2, 1992. Deadheading to California is a Amfleet c... (more)