A hot WB stack train passes through the town of Toluca as it ducks under the Santa Fe searchlights in some sweet evening light. With all of the searchlights replaced west of Galesburg, it's only a... (more)

Small Town, America
One hundred and ten miles west of Chicago on Santa Fe’s main line is the small town of Toluca in Marshall County. In a view from an abandoned coal mine tailing pil... (more)

The freight off the NS at Streator creeps SLOWLY thru Toluca due to a signal malfunction.

The west end of the plant at Toluca witnesses an eastbound Q train for Chicago shortly after dusk. With scattered signal replacements on the TransCon reaching as far as Fort Madison, it's anybody... (more)

An eastbound UPS hotshot storms through the quiet settlement of Toluca. This vantage point of the mainline is accomplished by making the stiff hike up the "Jumbo." Once at the top, visitors are ... (more)

The old Santa Fe searchlights stand tall in Toluca, as a westbound hotshot highballs through town.

An eastbound UP run-through stack train races through the small town of Toluca, looking almost like an HO-scale model from on top of Mount Jumbo. Some fall colors can be seen in this view as well.

UP autorack train AGBML speeds west on the former ATSF mainline through Toluca, viewed from "The Jumbo" just south of the mainline. As cool of a view this is during the day, it can be even more s... (more)

A BNSF Z train screams under the ATSF signal bridge in Toluca, IL in the early morning sunshine.

BNSF7690 passes under the old ATSF signal bridge at Toluca, IL as it switches from one main to two.

Eastbound Z-train pounds thru the crossovers at Toluca on the east end of the Chilly Sub. The train is passing MP 110, and still 93 miles west of Willow Springs, IL, the final destination for this... (more)

Westbound autoracks storm through Toluca with a pair of H3 ES44DC's at the helm, as seen from the Jumbo south of the mainline.

After a failed first attempt at conquering the Jumbo the previous day, I'm finally granted a westbound in the form of a monster stack train led by two GEVO's, with two more bringing up the rear in... (more)

The eastbound Chief rushes through Toluca as seen from the slag pile.

A hotshot piggyback highballs westward through the countryside, in between Toluca and Ancona.