Westbound grain.

A Westbound stack train from Logistics Park Chicago in Elwood, Illinois, heading for the West coast.

Now UP but still in the old colors and mixed with a varied consist of other units.

Lowest number on the roster leads long string of covered hoppers on the former C&O.

BNSF 976 sporting its heritage 1 paint brings the L-RDV071 road local back towards Cleburne in the middle of a four way meet with the Heartland Flyer and two counterpart stack trains

BNSF C44-9W 5047 leads Z STOWSP7 07 downgrade towards Needles meeting a westbound stacker.

BNSF 5118 leads the Lake yard, to Thornton BC manifest train north, as it approaches Mud Bay west.

B09 heads east up Otis Hill on the NS Chicago Line with some fall foliage

A number of FMG’s SD90 locos have returned to service of late to help with a power shortage due to the construction trains for the new FMG Eliwana line. C44-9W unit 010 leads SD9043MAC unit 905 ... (more)

On the Cape Lambert to Western Creek section near Jacob’s Gully, Rio Tinto locomotives 8146, 9429 and 9135 work another rake of empties from Cape Lambert on 14 September 2020. At Western Creek,... (more)

The section of track west of the Great Northern Highway on FMG's Solomon line has a number of curves and hills. Here near Bow, Dash 9 unit 005 & SD70 717 work an empty FMG ore out towards the Fire... (more)

In glorious afternoon light, 7064, 7075 & 7068 wind around the hills north of Tom Price with a loaded ore from Tom Price on 11 September 2020.

A Warbonnet C44-9W takes an H2 Gevo with an Intermodal... bound for LA... over the Des Plaines River in Lemont.

A Fall Day in Pinecliffe

Fall colors are subtle in the overcast light on this wet day along the Moffat Road.

A pair of GEs take an autorack train around the bend out of Savanna, and along the Great Mississippi River. Not many places in Illinois with as great of scenery as Savanna.