At 5:56 p.m. on April 27, 1991, Burlington Northern train 204 heads east along the “Ol’ Man River” and Mississippi Palisades State Park as it rolls toward Savanna, Illinois. The train is led... (more)

Burlington Northern train 3 softly reflects in the Mississippi River as it heads west of Savanna, Illinois, late in the afternoon of April 3, 1993. Trailing the BN EMD SD40-2 leading the train are... (more)

A short eastbound Burlington Northern ‘Expediter’ intermodal train, pulled by lone EMD GP50 No. 3151, approaches Savanna, Illinois, in a view from Mississippi Palisades State Park on September... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern freight is about to thump across the diamond as it passes the creaky, old tower guarding the Milwaukee Road crossing of the BN at Savanna, Illinois, in November 19... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 No. 6795 leads train 12 eastbound along the bank of the Mississippi River as it approaches Savanna, Illinois, at 4:10 p.m. on October 19, 1996. Trailing units are LM... (more)

Soo Line train 220 heads east out of Savanna, Illinois, at 12:25 p.m. on October 24, 1992. The railroad’s abandoned, former Milwaukee Road yard at Savanna is still populated by a large assortmen... (more)

The angled nose of Canadian National EMD SD40 No. 5220, a trailing unit on CN train 348 at Savanna, Illinois, on Burlington Northern’s C&I line on the afternoon of August 21, 1994.

An eastbound Burlington Northern freight has followed the Mississippi River since departing the crew change point of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and is now approaching Savanna, Illinois on July 20, 1991... (more)

On October 24, 1992, the Soo Line’s abandoned, former Milwaukee Road yard at Savanna, Illinois, is still populated by a large assortment of Soo and Milwaukee cars awaiting a date with the cuttin... (more)

Westbound mixed freight runs along the Mississippi River just outside of Savanna, Illinois.

At sunset on October 24, 1992, an eastbound Burlington Northern train speeds along the Mississippi River as it passes under the graceful U.S. Highway 52 truss bridge at Savanna, Illinois. This bri... (more)

Rails worn by heavy tonnage, the late afternoon sun glints off the diamonds of Burlington Northern’s crossing of Soo Line’s former Milwaukee Road main line at Savanna, Illinois, on September 1... (more)

Last peak of the fall colors from the Mississippi River Palisades

BNSF 4274 leads XHNTWKCK down the BNSF Aurora Subdivision as the Mississippi Palisades State Park looms in the background.

SOO 4412 and CP 2319 sit in the Savanna Yard waiting for their next assignment as the lights of of CP train 681 add some light on the nose of 4412.