Running down the former MoPac main, a pair of blue and yellows are in charge of a southbound ethanol train, that would get onto the CSX in town. This is my 2000th photo on RailPictures.Net.

Crossing over the crick and under the old hiway 52 bridge that wont survive the summer,new one on the way.

It was a busy train day around Green Island, IA. This train is the second of three southbounds out of Dubuque. A northbound ethanol empty is waiting on the southbound parade at Green Island. This... (more)

It was a busy train day in Bellevue, IA. This train is the second of three southbounds out of Dubuque. A northbound ethanol empty is waiting on the southbound parade at Green Island, IA. This t... (more)

This morning's detour move is an IC&E extra, MMCCCX, running with four matching blue and yellows, this is the picture perfect image and probably one of my all time favorite roll-bys. Run 8, no dit... (more)

Another detour runs east on the CP thru Rondout.

Surrounded by snow & ice early in the morning

A set of four matching ICE/DME SD40-2's head up a frozem MHUCC as they round one of the many S curves in Leaf River during a blustery Illinois blizzard.

HUCC slow to line the southsiding switch at Edmore for the main.

IC&E crosses into the Hawkeye State and will turn left at the wye headed to Davenport. The tail end of the train is visible on the causeway over at the left.

A DME train is using trackage rights on the UP to get to Mason City.

IC&E 6446 makes good time soutbound towards Clinton and Nahant.

Regular Merchandise Train from Kansas City, Mo - St. Paul, MN.

Red barns on this farmstead made for a nice foreground east of Kirkland, ILL.

The ICE's daily Chicago BRC Clearing-Huron, SD, train grinds uphill with the Oregon Nuke Plant towering in the background; a unique piece of rural Illinois scenery.