Restarting on a .42% grade here at Allen Jct, puts these old girls to the test. They show their age as they slowly get 13,000 tons of iron ore moving again after meeting an empty here. This loaded... (more)

This loaded ore train is about 3 miles to the end of their journey. The train came out of Minntac Mine near Mount Iron and is bound for Two Harbors and a boat. The engineer is dragging the brakes ... (more)

The Renfe AVE high-speed train S-100 number 20 is on its way from Marseille (France) to Madrid Puerta de Atocha with a delay of about 45 minutes.

The Renfe AVE high speed trainset S-103 number 07, built by Siemens in Germany, is on the way from Barcelona Sants to Madrid Puerta de Atocha.

The BN ran quite a few St. Paul to Chicago intermodal trains each way along the Aurora Sub daily. The trains were neat to get cause you never knew what they would come with. Hail as an "Exped... (more)

An eastbound intermodal train heads for Chicago during a winter storm with 3-4 axle units. The train is passing thru East Dubuque on the Aurora Sub in the late 90s. Scanned slide from January 1997... (more)

Coal trains on the Santa Fe race track looked out of place. These York Canyon Coal trains were heading to McCook and points east. Usually, these heavy trains got 3-4 big GEs for power. As seen he... (more)

The BN ran 2 intermodal trains to Denver out of Chicago. One ran early morning into Galesburg, and the other one at night. The night one has stayed thru the BNSF era. Train 65 was normally the day... (more)

Th BN tested 4 SD60MAC's and then later in 1993 they placed an order for 350 SD70MAC's. The SD60s were the test bed to what became a huge investment in the coal power fleet with the purchase of th... (more)

An empty coal train from the Brookfield Sub swings around the corner and out the Waterman way towards Graham for another trip back to the coal fields. By 1996 AC power was getting to be common. Sc... (more)

Man, I think these SD70 looked great brand new. BN really got the use out of them the past 30 years. Here, a pair of MACs head south out of Galesburg for coal bound for southern Illinois. The coal... (more)

The BNSF merger was getting closer to reality by May 1995. Galesburg was about to become a major hub in the east with this merger. Lots of things would change, but for now the BN was as is with th... (more)

In the early 90s, my mother and I made a lot of trips to Galesburg for railroad days. It was some of the 1st places we went and seen major train action. The BNSF merger would make Galesburg the hu... (more)

Running coal trains thru Galesburg Yard wasn't too common practice. Once in a while, MofW or traffic issues would force the hand, and the trains would run by the roundhouse and out thru Waterman t... (more)

I didn't see a lot of Dash 8s leading trains when I lived in Galesburg in the mid-90s. At least I didn't shoot many. A quartet of blue and yellows hammer their way towards LA. Seen here at MP 171,... (more)