Sometimes, you just get lucky. I happened to be driving through town and noticed a vehicle train heading west on the Chilli Sub. After realising it was a former ATSF SD75M doing the honors, the ch... (more)

Having just been baner tested at Smithshire, BNSF 8318 and company get all 17,600 horses tugging on the drawbars to accelerate the train back to trackspeed. The motors have just crossed the brand ... (more)

The crew of a E-CXCATM0-23A has just untied the train and is rolling west near Clay Switch just out of Galesburg, Illinois.The train will head to Creston, Iowa where a fresh crew will take the tra... (more)

The sun is setting on a beautiful 70 degree day in Galesburg, Illinois as a westbound Z-WSPSTO9-11L rolls through CP G.I. on the outskirts of town.

A UP Z train begins the descent into the Spoon River Valley just west of Williamsfeild, IL. The UP utilizes a trackage rights agreement with the BNSF between Chicago, and Kansas City, MO. The BNSF... (more)

Pulling with all their might, 22,000 horses come over the top of the most formidable mainline grade in the state of Illinois known as Edelstein Hill.

There aren't many searchlights left on the BNSF Marceline Sub, but there are still two sets standing tall and proud. One of them is here in Bucklin, MO. The sun is peeking through a storm cloud as... (more)

A Union Pacific intermodal train from the huge Global 4 facility in Chicagoland makes the quick jaunt across the Spoon River on the rather impressive thru-truss bridge at Dahinda, Illinois. From t... (more)

An eastbound junk train with Norfolk Southern's Southern Railway Heritage Unit doing the honors rolls eastward past the Wabash searchlights at Wakenda, MO on a beautiful spring morning. We almost ... (more)

A hot Z from Willow Springs, Illinois to Alliance, Texas is blasting into the sunset attempting to gain speed to attack the famed "Edlisten Hill" just west of here. The train is passing... (more)

A stack train heads west past a long dead oak tree heading for it's first crew change point of Fort Madison, Iowa.

Looking great on home rails, two Warbonnet Dash-9's sail through the Santa Fe through-truss bridge spanning the Spoon River in Dahinda, Illinois. These veterans of the Santa Fe have most assuredly... (more)

It's a crisp fall afternoon on the former Santa Fe Chili Sub as this westbound Z-Train momentarily shatters the fall tranquility of the town of Dahinda, Illinois. The train is coming across the Sp... (more)

With the Interstate Heritage Unit doing the honors, a brightly colored 21T hurries west outside Marshfeild, Indiana.

A westbound Z-CHCPTL9-21A is dwarfed by the shear rock cliffs that make up the Mississippi Palisades State Park just north of Savanna, Illinois. It's hard to believe that this spot is in Illinois,... (more)