Two very different GM&O F-3A's are sunning themselves outside the ICG locomotive shop.

Agrail GP7 #35 poses for a quick picture as it loads a string Union Pacific covered hoppers. This locomotive started life as Boston & Maine 1577. It still wears its Guilford-era dark green and o... (more)

ex-B&M GP7 35 loads a cut of Union Pacific covered hoppers at Agrail's facility in Bloomington, IL. The elevator complex is located on the site of the old Chicago & Alton Shops on the west side o... (more)

GM&O 880A sits outside the diesel shop on a sunny August day. Even by then F3A's were getting rare.

A nice variety of power can be seen at the Union Pacific Bloomington Illinois yard.

Abe Lincoln waits for PC freight to clear plant

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Things are all quiet for now in the Bloomington yard.

GP30 #520, still wearing its original GM&O paint scheme, leads a southbound out of the Bloomington yards past BN Target tower. The tower here protected the crossing of the ICG's Chicago to St. Lo... (more)

GP30 #518 waits for its next assignment in the Bloomington engine pit while the moon rises in the eastern sky in this ten minute time exposure.

The north end of the ex-GM&O yard, with it's old lamp structure still standing, sees the UP working the one scheduled freight over this mostly-Amtrak route.

Norfolk Southern's Bloomington District and it's line through the center of Bloomington, Illinois has over 15 at grade crossings, many of them on curves. It's not hard to notice a train coming, as... (more)

A Union Pacific Railroad Southbound train, led by a Norfolk Southern locomotive, is about to cross the diamond at BN Target on the west side of Bloomington, Illinois. Another train, on the Norfolk... (more)

Norfolk Southern's D 47D local, with former Conrail SD50 5415 and a sister, prepare to couple into a train of used cross ties at Dean siding on the south side of Bloomington, Illinois on Friday J... (more)

E7 #101 leads passenger train #1, “The Alton Limited” past the Bloomington yards and will be arriving at the station in about a half mile. The Subway Club in the background was comprised of t... (more)