Burlington Northern train 203 rumbles westbound through Flag Center, Illinois, on the sunny afternoon of April 16, 1988. BN No. 2700 is a GP39-2 built by EMD in 1981, and the third unit is a lease... (more)

A short Burlington Northern local out of Rochelle, Illinois, scurries westward on the C&I (Chicago & Iowa, a predecessor) line west of Flag Center on April 6, 1991. Between EMD GP38 No. 2172 and c... (more)

Negotiating the undulating profile of the C&I line in northern Illinois farm county is a pair of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s powering eastbound BNSF double stack train 54 west of Flag Center o... (more)

LMX 8542, and a fuel tender, lead eastbound Expediter 46 on its approach to Flag Center, Illinois.

BNSF 4712 which still sports the Warbonnet scheme pulls it's train out of the siding in Flag Center to continue west on the BNSF Aurora Sub. Here it is passing the soon to be replaced CB&Q searchl... (more)

An interesting mix heads west with double stacks through Flag Center.

A quarted of SD40-2s heads west with a hot Z train, old #11.

Passing thru Flag Center.

Shut down for the weekend... sits in the middle of nowhere.