On a gorgeous September morning, BNSF 5759 sprints southbound down the Brookfield Sub through Saluda, IL with a loaded Taconite train for Granite City, IL in tow.

A pair of CSXT General Electric widecabs drag a long westbound vehicle train out of the Illinois River valley and under a pair of still standing ATSF searchlight signal bridges. Foreign power has ... (more)

Playing peek-a-boo amongst the gritty structures of downtown St. Louis' riverfront, a former Missouri Pacific EMD GP38-2 works Lesperance St yard's 0700 YSL14R 21 "Dump Job" as it drags ... (more)

In the midst of a late-afternoon train parade, a southbound manifest extra for Pine Bluff, Arkansas zips down the Chester Subdivision as it parallels the autumn colored Mississippi River bluffs. T... (more)

Staying occupied classifying railcars, a matched deuce of TRRA SD40 variants work Terminals' Madison Yard "Hump Job" on a beautiful mid-June evening. The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis... (more)

Iowa Interstate's daily Council Bluffs to Blue Island road freight (CBBI-17) leisurely strolls through downtown Moline over a layer of freshly fallen snow at a brisk 10 mph with the usual pair of ... (more)

Two Union Pacific AC44's lead an eastbound loaded WEPX Coal train for Oak Creek, WI past the Rochelle Railroad Park on a chilly March morning. Taken on St. Patrick's Day 2012.

On Saturday, September 13th, 2014, the Iowa Interstate Railroad made four round trips between Henry, IL and Chillicothe, IL running a special 8-car passenger excursion for the families, railfans a... (more)

Having just departed the station on-time at Galesburg, Amtrak train #381, the Quincy, IL bound "Carl Sandburg", splits the signals here at MP 168.0X Saluda on BNSF's Brookfield Subdvisio... (more)

A southbound vehicle train eases through Madison, IL on TRRA rails as it passes under a signal bridge that guards the entrance to SH Interlocking, just behind me. The train features an H2 Dash 9 a... (more)

Under the big and blue Northern Illinois skies, eastbound loaded crude oil train U-FYNCNQ0 35T hustles past Rochelle's Industrial Park area on BNSF's Aurora Subdivision with a couple of Canadian N... (more)

Loaded up at the Black Thunder Mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, coal drag C-BTMCCM0 rockets through Cameron, IL headed east on BNSF's Ottumwa Subdivision. A pair of elephant style EMD SD70ACe... (more)

On a gorgeous late-winter morning, three Union Pacific AC45CCTE's haul ass through the classic ATSF searchlight signals at Williamsfield with high priority City of Industry, CA to Global IV Joliet... (more)

Hitting the CN diamonds at Tolono, Norfolk Southern TripleCrown train #255 flys across the Lafayette District headed westbound towards Voltz Yard in Kansas City, MO. Today's train is led by a Cana... (more)

A quick sucker hole in the building cloud cover allows the sun to shine through and illuminate westbound local freight L-CHI1021 16I as it works its way through the quaint community of Edelstein a... (more)