Rust has been on the rail for years, and the tracks are over-grown with weeds: this is what happens when a railroad neglects a once busy mainline, and a scene like this SD70M that would have been ... (more)

UP 6787 and CNAOV9 19 picks up speed after cresting Kirkwood Hill.

Struggling UP coal drag CNAOV9 19 is just cresting Kirkwood Hill at 10 mph.

In a scene that should be from a shortline, UP 4409 and a tie train have pulled onto the weed-grown remenant of the Carondelet Cutoff at Kirkwood, now known as the Kirkwood Industrial Lead. Train ... (more)

Replaced on high priority freights by newer SD60's and SD70's, the SD40-2 is not yet dead, many examples can still be found on Class 1 RR's, such as this BNSF manifest freight waiting for a crew a... (more)

The brakeman prepares to grab the last car as the engineer shoves to the cut of cars waiting on the main. The Indiana RR GP16 is leased.

Sunset over Union Pacific tracks through southern Illinois farmland.

Just before sunset two old GE's rocket MASNL 17 through North Dupo at track speed.

This unpatched SP unit follows CNAAE 12 down the hill in picturesque old Maplewood.

UP 7155 fronting CIRBR 13 climbs the short grade in Maplewood amongst the city's many flowering trees.

Its light reflecting and shimmering through the clouds, the setting sun creates a beautiful scene, as a BNSF steel train rumbles over Grants Trail.

The Ivory Job, YSL72R 26, pulls the last cars out of Monsanto, they will then head back to Lesparance Street Yard since South Side Recycling does not have to be switched tonight.

This hot little intermodal, KMNOA 19, scoots across the bridge at Fountain and makes a B-line for Dupo.

QASLI 19 heads south along the picturesque Mississippi River bluffs at sunset.

MPIEW 19 is cookin' as he flies south at darn near 60 mph.