The very photogenic Cherrywood trestle is a great place to shoot trains, especially ones with consists like this. If you're a golfer, like myself, you can bring a few old clubs and hit some balls ... (more)

SOO 6037 lets out some smoke as it leads the daily 272 manifest over one of the many hills on the Chicago Subdivision.

Coming south in the nice evening light across the Mohawk, this loaded ethanol was recrewed at Balston Spa by 17:00hrs after it canned last night until it's counterpart departed Kenwood Yard earl... (more)

While waiting for 487 291 rolls by us with some decent power.

A loaded ethanol train out of Hawkeye Renewable Energy at Butler, IA, heads north towards the DM&E at Nora Springs, IA. The Iowa Northern uses the DM&E power from Nora Springs to Butler and back t... (more)

A loaded ethanol train out of Hawkeye Renewable Energy at Butler, IA, heads north towards the DM&E at Nora Springs, IA. The Iowa Northern gets the DM&E power at Nora Springs and runs it down to th... (more)

A nice change of pace. 99% of the time this train uses a pair or GE's, but today Soo 6037 has the honors of guiding the train up River.

Older EMD power is a nice change of pace versus the newer GEs that normally lead this train.

A transfer pulls a cut of cars out of CP's Yard and will shove them into UP's Belt Yard.

CP 185 lead by a RARE SD60 leads 6 more locomotives; CP 8784, CP 6042, SOO 6048, CP 8823, SOO 4448, CP 3018. I say rare because catching a SOO 60 leading now days are just getting harder and harde... (more)

A nice assortment of new and old power heads west along the Mississippi River on the trip to St. Paul, MN.

Eastbound unit grain train destined for Mount Pocono passthe the reservoir at Elmhurst

Priority Train from Chicago, IL - St. Paul, MN crosses over from Main Track 1 to Main Track 2 at Raymore after coming down the hill from Tunnel City.

Eastbound grain train, possibly headed for Gulf exporting. It's definately getting difficult to find locomotives painted like this, anymore.