A 4 pack of EMD’s lead a loaded grain train South on the Bloomer Line.

A Bloomer Line veteran by the old depot in Gibson City.

A pair of Bloomer Line engines switch at Sibley.

A former NYC GP9, now working for the Bloomer Line, pulls a cut of cars at the Alliance Grain elevator at Gibson City West.

Bloomer Railroad 7561 + LTEX 1413 + Bloomer 7514 struggle out of Sibley IL with grain loads for Gibson City on 1 October 2008

Bloomer loaded grain train waits to deliver to the NS.

The BLOL shoves on the loads to clear the run-a-round.

The grain loads pause as they prepare to hand-off the train to a waiting NS crew.

Lugging hard on the loads up and around the curve south of Sibley.

Splitting the crossing signals.

Riding the small hills enroute to Gibson City pulling 40 grain loads.

Its a shame the middle unit can't fade fast enough to match the other two, lessor or not.

Delivered as NYC GP9 6002 in 1956.

The Bloomer's road train gets off the ex-IC branch and onto the ex-Wabash mainline for the run to Gibson City.