Inbound freight has yet another rebuild.

Another Paducah success on a beautiful crisp cold southern Illinois day and my employer was paying for the trip. Could it be better? I think I lit a cigar. I've since given them up on the reque... (more)

A southbound Illinois Central freight train, with coal hoppers behind the locomotives, passes a picturesque barn between Ashkum and Danforth, Illinois, on May 6, 1990. The modern day IC locomotive... (more)

NRG’s Will County Generating Station in Romeoville, IL owned 2 EMD SD20 locomotive’s. WCCH 1801 and 1802. Those SD20's were used to haul coal trains in and out of the plant from the staging ya... (more)

Illinois Central’s SCMI freight operating from Chicago to Memphis, Tennessee, is passing one of Metra Highliner electric commuter trains at University Park, Illinois, on January 21, 1989.

CGAX 2053 at Ord. NE.

The NRG Will County Generating Station in Romeoville, IL opened in 1963 and has been coal fired since that time. With coal deliveries from the Union Pacific, the plant has two 1959-built SD20's as... (more)

On May Day 2022, both Will County Coal Handling SD20's sit quietly. 1802 is literally parked at the end of the line, while 1801 is awaiting a crew to shove a string of coal empties out of the plan... (more)

Coal for University of Wisconsin-Madison’s power plant arrived via barge on the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien. It then was switched by this old Whitcomb locomotive, and picked up by a Wi... (more)

Rumor has it that the coal fired, Midwestern Generating Station in Romeoville is supposedly going to close down this summer. They own two former Illinois Central SD20 locomotives to haul coal in a... (more)

WCCH SD20 #1802 sits silently at the end of the line. Will County #4, the coal fired power plant in Romeoville, stands tall in the background. The days of coal at this plant are seemingly coming t... (more)

For the first time in over six months, the Midwestern Generating Station in Romeoville has received a coal train. Will County Coal Handling (WCCH) SD20 #1801 is in charge of the first cut of 30 ca... (more)

CRGX SD20 609 sits quietly underneath the grain elevator at Morris, MB.

Looking great, CRGX SD20 609 awaits its next assignment in Morris, MB.

Power for the Farmland Service Grain Elevator at Gothenburg, Nebraska.