A 50-car unit John Deere combine train is headed for Galesburg for a crew change before heading to McCook for interchange to the NS. NS will take it to Baltimore for export.

Chartered equipment from the "Friend of 261" and Amtrak lays over in Rock Island while the family who chartered the train atteneded a family reunion over the weekend.

BN-1 and BN-2 team up with SLSF 1522 to run an excursion for employees to Yates City and back from Galesburg in conjunction with Galesburg RR Days. Scanned from a 35mm print negative.

IAIS 6988 brings the final excursion back into Geneseo for the "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" Festival the following day.

The "Nitron Job" pulls a 50-car unit train of John Deere combines for interchange to the BNSF at East Moline. Final destination is Baltimore via the NS.

IAIS 6988 deadheads into the Quad Cities with its water car, tool car, and 10 covered hoppers in preperation for participation in Geneseo, IL's "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" Festival.

The CNW Heritage SD70ACe leads the way for PRCB through downtown Malta.

IAIS 717 drills the east end of the yard and crosses the "Have a Happy Day" viaduct along 5th Ave.

Due to winter maintenance on the IAIS' normal route over the Mississippi River (Government Bridge), the IAIS is detouring over BNSF's Crescent Bridge, about a mile down river. This move happens o... (more)

A special move handling the first EMD F-125 for Metrolink came off the NS at Streator, IL and is running west on the BNSF to Los Angeles. The two GP60's brought the SCAX 905 and buffer cars from ... (more)

A BNSF stack train heads west through the semophores at Brighton Park. Work is being done to automatic this manual junction with a rumored cutover of July 4, 2007.

A Union Pacific Engineering Inspection train slows to a stop at the crew change pad in Clinton to exchange managers on the rear car "Fox River." The head-end crew changed at Hwy 84 on t... (more)

NKP 765 is the star attraction for the Friday night photo shoot at Train Festival 2011.

The "BN Barstow" is running late on this morning. The morning crew is normally heading west to Iowa at this time, but instead bringing the previous days train back east to Barstow.

The empty coal train heads east for Peoria.