This ex-CNW caboose is used for back up moves when UP services customers on this lonely ex-CNW RR outpost, Jefferson Junction.

As if on cue, the SP 4449 smokes it up for the onlookers above.

SP 4449 highballs the Heartland.

The QJ-led Walcott excursion crosses into Iowa from Illinois as seen from Tar Beach.

UP 1996 with heritage sisters 1989 & 1995 waits for a fresh crew before getting onto the Blair sub and heading west for the photo shoot in SLC.

Sisters in steam pose at Red Wing.

IMRL special utilizes MRL power as it nears Nahant yard in Davenport.

Even man made drifts are fun to watch being busted. The WSOR local cuts through a neighborhood shopping district with work on the Soya spur. The Capitol building can be seen at the back of the t... (more)

Officials from KCS & CP tour the IC&E, seen here in Metra territory headed east at track speed. The VIP's will detrain at Bensenville and presumably take the Gulfstream home.

It's the 4th of July and MILW 261 begins to bark as she assaults the grade at Division St., enroute to Minneapolis Jct., safe at home after a busy 2+ weeks on the road.

The daily roadswitch out of Argentine over the Topeka sub makes the bend southward past the Amtrak depot after passing the old ATSF shops area in the upper left.

UP OCS train heads east over the CNW about to duck under US 61.

Today's UP special is running a bit behind schedule as it passes under an old CNW mainline fueling "pad" at Clyman.

We're chasing the WSOR on a winter morning in Wisconsin as Soo 1003 gives an assist.

A flying goose is in the WSOR logo, and the 1500's have been given the name "goslings" by WSOR fans since arriving on the property. They sound good chugging away in the snow on Easter Sunday 2008... (more)