A UP SD60 leads a short NS train west on its way to Chicago as a couple fellow railfans look on.

Milwaukee 261 begins to slow for her stop and layover at Muscatine.

One of few GTW units in GT paint sits while awaiting the arrival of counterpart train M338. One he was rolling, the original, not to mention rare, Nathan M-3 air horn was brought to life, and pro... (more)

A pair of the J's famous orange SD38s hustle empty coal cars from the State Line Power Plant back to the BNSF.

A Soo Line GP38-2 proudly displays its heritage. If you look closely, you can see the Milwaukee herald on the cab starting to fade through and "Milwaukee Road" on the long hood.

One of the repainted CN tunnel motors leads steaming taconite loads around the curve and onto the main at Wolf Jct.

WC 7524 and 7506 thunder past WC 7502 with a grain train in the siding. I never thought I'd shoot two, let alone 3, WC's on different trains passing eachother in 2006. What an unexpected surpris... (more)

An NS C39-8 leads a C40-9W on CN train 340...and the C39-s were supposed to have been retired.....

Milwaukee 261 once again follows the Mississippi on its way to Muscatine.

The DPU on a UP coal train guards the rear end as the train enters the ComEd Plant in Waukegan.

2 IAIS GP38-2s head east towards Blue Island on a 100 degree morning in Chicagoland.

A wide cab GP40-2 leads a pair of C30-7s on a loaded coal train out of Durand; both C30-7s are of BN heritage, one in BN and one in Heritage I. First C30s Ive seen on a coal train in almost a dec... (more)

One of IHB's GP38-2s works very hard to lug a long string of loaded steel coils out of the Inland Steel plant and down the IHB. The Inland plant is in the background.

The CNW unit leads west through Ashton en route to Des Moines, IA.

The WC's waste no time flying past rural Iowa landscapes, the train was doing almost 60 the entire way to Waterloo.