Burlington Northern Expediter train 42 crosses the Rock River and curves away from Oregon, Illinois, on April 1, 1989. I know, the weather is crappy and it’s “stick” season in the Midwest�... (more)

A Burlington Northern local heads east into Oregon, Illinois, on the morning of July 1, 1995. Leaving the C&I (Chicago & Iowa) main line on the right is the 6.8-mile Mount Morris branch.

Around midday, with the sun shining bright, BNSFs 476 job crawls across the Rock River into Oregon to switch sand cars for Illinois Railway. Speaking of Illinois Railway, IR 3500, seen 3rd out, ta... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 No. 6836 and Montana Rail Link EMD F45 No. 392 lead BN train 110 over the Rock River at Oregon, Illinois, on the morning of October 22, 1994. MRL No. 392 is still pa... (more)

R-CHI476's power runs around to the other end of the small yard in Oregon.

Crew has used control box to get signal to crossover C & I main to pull sand cars from the Mt. Morris branch. Local will run up the ill to serve sand plant west of Oregon.

Passing under the wooden overpass of S. Burlington Road, Burlington Northern train 13 curves through a cut west of Oregon, Illinois, on April 1, 1989. Hustling the intermodal train destined for Po... (more)

BNSF 7964 leads a train over the Rock River bridge on the BNSF's Aurora Subdivision in Oregon, IL.

BNSF 4064 leads an afternoon stack train into the sun. The large towers in the background are the cooling towers for Exelon's Byron nuclear power plant.

BN 2963 leads a piggyback train past the Oregon, IL depot in September of 1993. How many states have a state as a city/town? I know there is an Oregon, WI, Nevada, IA, and Washington, IA just to n... (more)

A gorgeous fall afternoon on the bluffs of the Rock River is greeted with BNSF 6563 and 7694 leading an autorack train east of Oregon, IL.

Burlington Northern train 3 flies through a cut west of Oregon, Illinois, on August 22, 1987. Powered by two EMD GP50s in “Tiger Stripes,” splicing a fuel tender and a GE B30-7A (B-unit), toda... (more)

Into The Sun!!! Westbound CSXT 960 goes by a old search light on the BNSF Aurora Sub in Oregon, IL on a very nice Saturday afternoon.

BNSF local is in the Oregon Yard waiting for 2 eastbounds to get by. Then they will head back east with about 8 cars out of the yard. The old depot is now a museum that is open on Saturdays.

A vehicle train from Chicago, IL, to Dayton Bluffs, MN, passes over the east switch at Oregon. Oregon is located at MP 99 on the C&I. The C&I is BNSF's busy mainline west of Chicago that trains us... (more)