Four engines, four different paint schemes! At sunset, CN YRP003 22 is pulling towards Cascades (X595) with 7 loaded cars. This customer is the last one that is still active at... (more)
Its the first day of Spring and Joliet Yard is loaded with IC SD70's on this nice evening.
Nothing says history like the old Illinois Central (now amtrak) station depot in downtown Kankakee. With this, two IC SD70s lead a wayfreight south towards Centralia on a crystal clear afternoon
A408 heading South through Paxton as snow flurries begin to fall.
With a taconite train coming north, IC 1026 crawls along the siding in Paxton with a long train for Centralia in tow.
On a crystal clear afternoon, CNs Chicago to Centralia way freight hustles south through the town of Ashkum. Home rails for these IC SD70s, a scene all too familiar on this line.
CN L572 is heading for Flat Rock with NS interchange traffic pulled from Oakwood Yard.
Running Its Home Rails of the Past Illinois Central GP40R 3107, still wearing the IC Deathstar scheme, brings the CN Hattiesburg, MS - Evanston, MS turn L543 south on the former IC Beaumont Dis... (more)
A408 from Kirk Yard headed South down the IC mainline with a mixed bag of power.
Tucked inside the Canadian National’s Woodcrest Locomotive Shop and receiving some care is Illinois Central GP38-2 9561. Built by EMD in April 1972, this engine was originally Gulf Mobile & Ohi... (more)
CN 3254 is being washed in the twilighht of the roundhouse while IC 790 sits outside to greet the first visitors of the day.
IC 3719, a 2-6-0, undergoes a cosmetic restoration at the Illinois Railway Museum.
IC 1028 approaches Wabena Road in Minooka with just six cars in tow on the Feb 6th run of the L509.
A very short and way over powered L509 rolls through Plainfield approaching South Drauden Road.