A empty grain from Dalhart TX, to Sterling, IL, passes the iconic coaling tower at DeKalb on the UP Geneva Sub. Glad UP went and painted alot of these older AC coal motors. They look nice now in t... (more)
The last of its kind. UP 6706, former CNW 8804, brings train IPDG2 under the CNW coal tower located in Dekalb, IL. This engine has spent a majority of its lifetime under UP ownership, only being u... (more)
UP Y708 and company have left the main line and are now cruising along on the Troy Grove Sub.
Union Pacific 8851 leads a manifest through Dekalb Illinois on a beautiful October morning.
This is probably the only Z train you can see with boxcars on it...The eastbound Salad shooter flies eastbound through Dekalb on a windy Sunday morning.
Westbound under the C&NW coal tower.
Two Union Pacific locomotives lead a coal train under the old coaling tower on Chicago & North Western's busy main line through DeKalb, Illinois.
C&NW coal chute at Dekalb Illinois just before sunrise.
A rock train sits in the DeKalb siding awaiting Monday morning's call to duty.
Empty coal leans into the curve in DeKalb.
A hot UP stacker races east as a North Platte bound manifest crawls west meeting under the DeKalb coaling tower.
The engineer brings his train to a crawl and will soon stop short of all the crossings in DeKalb due to another traffic jam ahead.
The sun sets on the infamous coaling towers of DeKalb.
Pushing toward Chicago in the afternoon sun.
