A nice looking UP GEVO leads #181 out of Decatur toward St. Louis in sweet September evening light.
NS #398 passes a picturesque old Midwestern church as the train rolls east thru Buffalo, IL on Easter Morning.
NS #255 passes the classic old grain elevator at Orleans with a rare Phase I SD70M on the point.
NS 20T thunders east thru the small hamlet of Oakley, hell-bent for the next crew-change at Peru, IN.
After getting stranded for 2 days in Bellevue, OH due to storm damage in northwest Ohio, NS #955 is finally rolling west toward Kansas City on Wabash rails. Here the train whips around the big cu... (more)
NS #145 rounds the big curve at Bates behind two standard cab SD70's: ex-CR 2563 and NS 2510. I spent hours railfanning the NS with nary a Catfish to be seen.
After swapping power at Bluffs, D31 splits the hold out signals at Naples. The crew will set out their train of Canadian potash loads at the mammoth Consolidated Grain & Barge river terminal, pic... (more)
NS #145 crosses the Illinois River as it passes thru the massive lift bridge at Valley City. Soon the engineer will have both of his Dash 9's in notch 8 as the train struggles up the long, steep ... (more)
BNSF underbid Union Pacific for the new Kincaid Generation contract and the first BNSF trains are rolling south on the Illinois & Midland. Here BNSF 9856 South starts around the curve at Cimic as... (more)
