Last light of the day.

An interesting MOW move with a HiRail and 2-flat cars passes by on main #1.

UP makes a move across the Rock River bridge, a CNW-built structure. The CNW crossed the Rock River at two locations in Janesville. Last year a defect was discovered and temporarily closed this ... (more)

This inbound train is parked at the yard, probably the turn from Horicon that arrived earlier in the day.

The baby Zephyr races through the crossovers at Wataga just out of Galesburg.

281's train rounds the curve into Reeseville, population 750. The last two SD60's are not online.

Getting a matched pair of red SOO SD60's leading a train portends a good afternoon of fanning.

In just a matter of a few days these MOW workers will become BNSF employees, but on this day, it's just a Santa Fe greeting to Amtrak 4.

Soo 410 had migrated to Nahant for yard duties by this time, it stands ready before the storm with an abundance of GM-family products.

A short #198 with only 11 cars makes time past the depot at Columbus reminicent of the Milwaukee Road Sprint service that onetime ran past this spot. Note the old Amtrak "arrow" logo sign, still ... (more)

The DS needs track one for opposing traffic, and the CP 6046 and SOO 6022 are offline bad ordered. That means it's up to the pair of geeps trailing to drag over 6,000 feet of train, leaving Amtra... (more)

Have you ever considered a snowmobile as a chase vehicle?

The Builder moves at twilight into the frozen Wisconsin night.

The Proviso-South St. Paul train has them up to track speed under the old coaling tower.

With a pair of ex-CR units leading, one still in blue, a hot autorack train heads east nearing Orrick. Soon the train will hit the paired NS-BNSF trackage dispatched by the BNSF Marceline sub, t... (more)