Nearing the end of it's all night sojourn from Kansas City, Kansas, the H-KCKGAL1-17A enters the Cameron Connection at CP 1850 and makes the turn southward toward the Galesburg Yard. No doubt the ... (more)

With all five jacks burning, the white-hot Z-SBDWSP9-16P screams eastward along the BNSF Chillicothe Sub just outside Cameron, Illinois.

After making a crew change 170th St. in Cameron, IL BNSF C-ALNMEK1-19 (Alliance,NE-Memphis,TN/NS) get the diverging approach signal to proceed off the BNSF Ottumwa Sub (MP-164.64) and onto the Gal... (more)

BNSF 647, sporting its original ATSF paint, leads a manifest nearing the connection on the Chilli.

BNSF H1 1108 leads IHBGAL east on the Ottumwa Sub approaching Graham.

A pair of Santa Fe Warbonnets lead a one car Streator flip west on the Ottumwa Sub just east of Cameron. Just ahead, they will use the Cameron connection to make a 180 degree turn to head east on ... (more)

Off in the distant pass the soybean fields, the scene where the ground meet the sky was briefly cut off as the westbound empty coal bucket BNSF E-CXCATM0-20 working it's way west on the BNSF Ottum... (more)

A pair of BNSF ACes lead a coal train east just east of Cameron.

A pair of Ex-ATSF Warbonnets leads a pretty lengthy train out of Galesburg towards the Cameron Connection to take the transcon eastbound.

On the last light of the day on the former ATSF Transcon-BNSF Chilicothe Sub the eastbound M-KCKGAL3-20 is easing on the dynamic brake, as a pair of GE motor bring the 5,764ft long manifest off th... (more)

A bit of sunshine breaks through a snow storm just west of Cameron, IL, as a heavy eastbound BNSF coal train roars across the landscape toward nearby Galesburg.

Westbound stack train.

Westbound stack train blasting out of Galesburg.

In a hard-blowing snow storm, an eastbound BNSF coal train roars across the Illinois plains near Cameron, with its next crew change at Galesburg.