Plenty of standard cabs sit at the ready at Nampa.

CN 5483 coasts downgrade near Woodbine, IA along what was once Illinois Central, then Chicago Central and Pacific railroad. The line only hosts what amounts to a local freight. For a brief period ... (more)

A pair of TRRA's new ex-UP SD60s pull out of the East end of Madison yard for headroom with T101 from Luther.

In the final rays of sunlight, a CP ballast train rumbles south through Bellevue with road loads in tow.

Oakway Leasing SD60 No. 9028 leads a BN C30-7 on a southbound manifest about to rattle across the UP diamonds in Fremont, NE. The pounding off traffic requires frequent maintenance of the crossing... (more)

Altoona to Pittsburgh manifest train 11A builds its train at CP-Works in Rose Yard. Former Conrail SD60, NS 6709 and three other GEs was the power this day. At the time, it was commonplace for 11A... (more)

CP SD60 6239, KCS SD70MAC 3948, and CP SD40-2 6045 echo into the Little Pic River valley notching up to climb Neys Hill. Trailing is a CP CWR threader car and 60 HZGX/Herzog ballast cars. Lake Sup... (more)

M337 is approaching Cherry Hill Road, a few miles to the East of Freeport.

A standard cab SD60 leads M337 across the Freeport Sub.

Union Pacific Railroad's M-BNAS (Manifest Bloomington-Alton Southern) rolls into the siding at the North end of McLean, Illinois as it prepares for a rolling meet with a Northbound stack train on ... (more)

A loaded HZGX Herzog rock train (loaded at CPKC's Dyment quarry near Dryden, Ontario makes its way across the Steel River bridge. CP SD60 6239, KCS SD70MAC 3948, and CP SD40-2 6045 provide the pow... (more)

Walker Yard's hump beltpack job works the old hump yard, which is now used for flat switching.

Walker Yard's "1500 West Tower" beltpack job pauses between moves while its crew has lunch.

CN 5489 heads East through Rockford with a single car for Genoa.

Todays version of CN's Freeport based local heads East with just a single car in tow. The train is just about to cross beneath Kelley Road, just West of Seward.