Oh to be back in summer... while enjoying some -8 degree F now, I reflect on June 5th when a BNSF hotshot came roaring under power lines in Coal City on a 70-some degree day. Early stages of what ... (more)
A neat lash-up soaks up the remaining rays of sunshine on this cold evening.
Going over First Street showed some red signals over at Pequot Junction, so we turned around and this BNSF train showed up quickly, sneaking behind this car shop.
One of the many money-making high speed Z-trains through the area!
BNSF 6522 wastes no time as it leads a intermodal west into Coal City.
The pair of SD60M's thunder west out of Coal City, not wasting any time headed to Galesburg.
Running wrong main to avoid congestion around Logistics Park, this eastbound stack train is highballing through Coal City on its way to Chicago.
On a sunny morning, an LPC bound stack train cruises through Coal City, about to knock down the signal at Pequot.
BNSF 6719 races east through Coal City, IL with a hot intermodal train in the late fall sunset. 1/500 F8 Ektachrome 100VS
After waiting for an eastbound to cross over, BNSF 4395 gets on the move, westbound at Pequot.
A pair of Dash 8's pass the old, ATSF depot in Coal City.
All clear of downtown Coal City, the engineer puts the hammer down, westbound.
Approaching Carbon Hill Road, this westbound UP stack train has an added bonus in the third position, that unit being a KCS Southern Belle.
Not long after sunrise, four BNSF GEVO's make their eastbound run through downtown Coal City.
Four GEVO's have no problem getting this westbound out of Coal City.
