In what looks like something from twenty years ago southbound CN A408 with two IC SD70's in command heads for Centralia.

Two IC SD70's lead a southbound freight towards Centralia.

Q199's train departs Jasper after a crew change. IC SD70 1021 has the honours.

IC SD70 1021 leads train Q199 into Jasper for a crew change.

A IC SD70 rests in the south yard in Joliet.

Among a fresh coating of Christmas time snow, IC 1021 guides this manifest south through Duplainville as the long string of leaning retired codeline poles follow the Waukesha Sub south.

Thunder Struck! AC/DC put it best.. A447's in the clear in the Controlled Siding at Vernon, for an O490- Herzog Ballast train stomping down the main. I didn't have tons of time, so I guessed on t... (more)

Warp Speed

Illinois Central paint schemes have been slowly disappearing. However, most of the SD 70 fleet remains in original IC black.

M338 and M337 hosted 2 rare consists today in Iowa. These 1st 3 units brought M337 into Waterloo around 2pm, and now are serviced on outbound M338 at sunset. IC 6107, CN 5369, IC 1021 made for a n... (more)

A combined L566/M338 with 7,000+ feet of train climbs the hill towards Scales Mound.

Daily local from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL. Missed this train before it got to Freeport (cloudy anyway!). The train is heading towards Rockford after completing its Freeport work.

A rare CN coal train (C71691-3-21) into St. Louis, with a matched pair of IC SD70s, waits for a crew at IL RT. 157 on the St. Louis Division. The coal is from a recently re-opened mine in central ... (more)

Loaded grain with CN crew for delivery to BNSF at Frentress lake road

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