Smoke 'em if you got 'em... V V's newest power heads back toward headquarters at Olin as they pass under the long dormant smoke stacks at RR headquarters. Today Olin produces bumpers for commercia... (more)

First Joint! The V V's 1726 (Valerie) hooks up to their newest acquisition for the first time, 2 F9's from Minnesota. V V RR Trainmaster J.W Montegerard is seen here at the joint as he takes a qui... (more)

Finally Home!! V V's newest power is tucked away on a spur outside of Danville, IL, as the V V guys prepare to pick up these beauties and inspect them for the first time. Just before the pick-up o... (more)

The V V RR is seen leaving Danville, IL, with MTY gon's picked up from the CSX interchange in town. In order to make room for the recent purchase of former Erie Mining F Units the V V has since so... (more)

Vermilion Valley 1726 (Valerie) performs switching duties on a little used spur just outside of Danville, IL, on a beautiful summer day. This section of trackage is usually reserved for car storag... (more)

An old Chevrolet school bus, turned camper, stands guard as a CSX local freight couples up after doing some local work in Danville, IL on Sept. 8, 1996.

A local train crawls through downtown Danville.

Innards or not, classic GP30 styling looks good on this road slug sitting in the Danville yard.

A remote control sled leads a former "B-boat", now just a shell of its former self and a remote control unit too.

At the south end of CSX's Brewer Yard, an RCL platform leads a yard job that has just picked up a train of old and empty flatcars and it's engine that were simply left sitting on the main outside ... (more)

At the south end of CSX's Brewer Yard, a former Conrail unit, with it's RCL operator sitting out on the head end, leads the train south to pick up a freight train on the mainline. Apparently, ther... (more)

The friendly Operator at Danville tends to duties knowing the days of this job are numbered.

Y130 passing a stopped Y191 in CSX's small yard at Danville,Ill. And no, this photo is not unlevel, that Y191 is sitting on a somewhat bad segment of track.

Triple Crown eases into Danville account red signals ahead at Danville Jct. The connection to KB&S's former Milwaukee "Southeastern" line slides downhill to the left.

A standard cab Dash 9 leads an older standard cab Dash 8 and an R/C SD40. A nice little lash-up to close a day of railfanning.