Amtrak NPCU 90200 hits the Illinois & Midland diamond at Ridgely heading up an eight car Lincoln Service train bound for Chicago. Although the shuttered tower still makes for a nice photo prop, i... (more)

Illinois Terminal GP7 #1501 at the engine facility in Springfield, June '75.

Ridgely Tower R.I.P.

Amtrak 595 and an unidentifed E unit roll Amtrak 21 toward a station stop at Springfield, IL.

A southbound unit coal train's headend crew prepares to pick-up orders on the fly at the Wabash-GM&O Iles tower on the south side of Springfield.

Amtrak 22 pauses for passengers in the late afternoon sun at the old GM&O passenger station in Springfield, IL. Former SAL tavern-observation 6601, now Amtrak 3341, adds a punctuation mark to the... (more)

During one of the worst central Illinois winters in memory, a northbound "slingshot" piggyback train, powered by ICG GP35 2501, became mired in snowdrifts south of Springfield. GM&O F3s 800B and ... (more)

After getting skunked at Bloomington, we finally caught up with the special at Ridgley. He is coming down the I&M "Dick Lead" to bypass the construction in the background. UP crews are replacing... (more)

N&W GP18 955 leads two relatively new UP U30Cs westbound on the old Wabash, west of Springfield, IL. This shot was taken from the C&NW overpass.

C&O GP9 6136 trails WM GP9 5989, formerly B&O 5989, across the GM&O diamond in Springfield. The units were headed to the west side of Springfield for a little switching.

B&O caboose C-2929 carries the markers on a three car Beardstown local as it crosses the ICG/GM&O in downtown Springfield, IL.

Hot autoparts hustle west out of Springfield.

ICG #33 has just finished working Ridgely Yard in Springfield and now continues southbound behind four former GM&O F3As. 810B, 811A, ICG 1615 and 806B are still several years away from being rein... (more)

Illinois Terminal Flexi-coil trucked SW1200 1206 rests adjacent to the dilapitated, but still in use, interurban carbarn in Springfield, IL.

Chicago and Illinois Western SW7 102 works the Ridgely Yard in Springfield, IL. C&IW was a Chicago-area shortline which fell under the control of the Illinois Central. This SW7, identified by on... (more)