Record flooding in the Midwest during the spring of 2019. SOO 4448 navigates the floodwaters through Port Byron, Illinois.
Northbound ballast train for the old Nitrin subdivision rolls at a good 10mph over the recently resurfaced and upgraded track.
Passing over the bridge north of MP12, the engineer of train B73 begins to throttle up from 10 to 25mph.
CP's "Nitrin Job" heads north along the Mississippi River through the small town of Port Byron. Todays train hosts a pair of Soo Line GP38-2s and eight cars to serve the three industries just nort... (more)
A pair of SOO GP38-2s leave Port Byron have just left Port Byron as they continue their trip to Ceffco along the Mississippi River.
MILW 1002 leads the Patrol into the siding at Port Byron along the Illinois side of the Mississippi River. For a view of the train it met, check out http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=1... (more)
The MILW mainline from the Quad Cities to Savanna on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River was a secondary route by this time in the 1970's and was used when the mainline on the Iowa side of ... (more)
The soo line heritage unit rolls south on the old Nitrin sub. with a 4 man crew(engineer, conductor, and 2 students).
The Nitrin Job heads out of Port Byron right along the Mississippi River bank on its way back to Nahant.
The Nitrin Job passes the old Warsaw Rock Island and Galena Railroad in Port Byron.
The Nitrin Job heads south through downtown Port Byron.
