The Tower protected the crossing of the Nickel Plate Clover Leaf and The Illinois Central Gruber Line.

Westbound Z train approaches the diamonds at Joliet, IL

A friendly wave and horn from the engineer acknowledge the photographer as the Texas Eagle makes an on time departure from St. Louis towards its final destination of Chicago, IL.

A P42DC has replaced a Siemens Charger normally assigned to Amtrak's northbound Illini as it cruises past the endless soybean fields of Illinois a couple of minutes before its scheduled stop in Ce... (more)

It looks like a Union Pacific train, but it is a CSX train on the former Pennsy Vandalia line between Terre Haute and St. Louis. UP power regularly runs through from St. Louis to the former NYC ... (more)

TRRA job 201 is a transfer between TRRA Madison Yard in Illinois and BNSF Lindenwood Yard in Missouri. TRRA provides road power from November through April while BNSF provides road power from May... (more)

Kaskaskia Regional Port District local brings back empty hoppers after interchanging full loads with the Canadian National at Lenzburg. The hoppers are loaded with limestone off of barges on the... (more)

In homage to EBT #16 being restored, sister mikado locomotives #15 and #14 lead a lead a coal train north to the interchange at Mt. Union, PA on a photo charter.

Originating in Centralia, IL, an overpowered local approaches the gated entrance to the Prairie States Energy Campus where the hopper will be spotted to load fly ash.

The locomotive was originally for the Illinois Central in 1957 as #9231, and later rebuilt by the IC as a GP11. Now leased by Tank Line Service, the locomotive has found a home switching grain ca... (more)

THERE IS A PROTOTYPE FOR EVERYTHING: An International Harvester School Bus has been converted to the Silver Flyer to carry passenger on the A&SV tracks from Enterprise, KS to Woodbine, KS.

Former Santa Fe Pacific #3415 is running its last season before its 15 year inspection takes it out of service. The locomotive has uncoupled from its train and the engineer acknowledges the brake... (more)

A pair of mikados lead a coal train north to the interchange at Mt. Union, PA.