On a gray and foggy last day of 2018, a BNSF intermodal races towards the end of its run in Chicago.

Santa Fe EMD GP20 No. 3040 leads a westbound Santa Fe freight through the curve at Ancona, Illinois, in March 1984.

CSXT 4585 leads BNSF V-BLUSBD west past the classic Santa Fe signals at Ancola, Illinois

The first hint of daylight begins to show itself over the vast farmlands of northern Illinois as an eastbound stack train takes a clear signal at Ancona on the former Santa Fe Transcon. The landma... (more)

A BNSF double stack train utilizes the crossovers at Ancona, Illinois to run around maintenance of way crews working just west of here in Toluca. The crossovers here were guarded by these Santa Fe... (more)

A pair of Santa Fe warbonnets leads a local under the doomed searchlights in Ancona,Illinois.

A faded pumpkin leads a westbound coal empty under the searchlights at Ancona on a warm fall day in late 2017.

The Los Angeles to Willow Springs Z-train whips around the curve at Ancona and passes under one of the endangered ex-Santa Fe signal bridges still left on the Chilli Sub. Signal crews are working... (more)

Five BNSF GE's make short work of hauling the New York to Los Angeles Z-train through the Illinois country-side.

Springtime in central Illinois is making its presence known with green lawns and flowering trees at Ancona on April 22, 1995, as a westbound Santa Fe stack train rolls through the curve at the sou... (more)

An eastbound stack train wastes little time rounding the sweeping curve at Ancona along BNSF's busy Chillicothe Subdivision. Until 1982 the Santa Fe operated a branch line from this location, know... (more)

Two original Santa Fe units on home rails rolls under former Santa Fe searchlights that still stands at Ancona Illinois. The bridges will fall soon in the name of PTC.

Santa Fe shows off its Super Fleet colors in its final summer of independent operation as ATSF 901 races a manifest freight west near Ancona, IL on the "Transcon". One learned to set up ... (more)

Santa Fe 642 lead a westbound intermodal train out of Ancona, IL at milepost 98 and into the setting sun on a snowless February day in 1995. The BNSF merger was 7 months away and little thought wa... (more)

At the end of a pleasant day on the Santa Fe in Illinois, the setting sun and red signal give way to one more eastbound intermodal hotshot. The sun was setting on the railroad as well as the BNSF ... (more)