An old caboose sits at the Decatur yard. From time to time it is still pressed into service for yard work.
NKP 765 heads west past Wabic Jct. The old Wabash coaling tower can be seen on the left hand side.
NKP 765 crosses the stone arch bridge spanning Lake Decatur.
Inbound Triple Crown train approaching the diamonds.
Nickel Plate 765 smartly steps over the Sangamon River Bridge and out of a foggy Decatur, a former Wabash Shop Town, leading NS Train 099 on the NS Brooklyn District after an overnight layover on ... (more)
BNSF power brings 6,771 feet of train across the diamonds. The train is 110 loaded grain cars from Minnesota heading for the ADM plant here in Decatur. A DPU is on the back end.
Mixed freight 301 heading south to Tayorville & Granite City at BD Junction.
Westbound Triple Crown train departs Decatur on an October Sunday evening.
High short hood SD40-2 heads down to the yard after switching Tate & Lyle.
Fourteen years after the merger with CN there are still some Illinois Central lettered locomotives to be found like these two in the CN Decatur yard. IC 6201 & 1027.
Illinois Central power pulls a mixed freight out of the yard and across the diamonds.
Power heads back to the NS Decatur yard after switching Tate & Lyle and dropping cars off at the CSX yard.
A very angry looking GTW geep and a lone IC SD40-3 sit idle in the CN Decatur yard.
CSX GP40-2 6075 poses next to the former Wabash coaling tower east of Wabic as the unit awaits the next call to duty.
