Train's were certainly few and far between today on the Lafayette District and this was the only one I managed to get trackside and shoot. A long westbound manifest for Decatur, IL accelerates uph... (more)

Empty coal train CCPGM-17 hustles southbound down UP's Villa Grove Subdivision near Sidney, IL. This train would be meeting a northbound at Block siding just south of here.

Croxton, NJ to Los Angeles, CA (Q-NYCLAC) stacks cruise westbound across the snow covered BNSF Transcon with a pair NS SD70M-2's in command.

Loaded up at the Black Thunder Mine in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, coal drag C-BTMCCM0 rockets through Cameron, IL headed east on BNSF's Ottumwa Subdivision. A pair of elephant style EMD SD70ACe... (more)

A westbound trackage rights Intermodal Z-train for Tuscon, Arizona wanders its way across the Chillicothe Subdivision in the middle of February snowstorm.

Two of Union Pacific's finest are in charge of today's westbound V-BLUBEL1 14A (Blue Island, IL - Belen, NM) vehicle train. The train is heading past me at restricted speeds due to an advanced app... (more)

Baretables from the west coast, led by a pair of Dash 9's, slice their way through the on-going snow storm headed eastbound for the Chicago area.

Cruising south down the 2nd Subdivision, A pair of IAIS units guide a long BUSW-19 freight for the TZPR through the Robert Rutherford Wildlife Sanctuary in the tiny village of Mossville, IL.

Amtrak's daily 391 train aka the "Saluki" makes it southbound stop along the CN at the Effingham Amtrak Station to pick-up and drop-off passengers.

One of the many Intermodal Z-train's to use BNSF's Los Angeles, CA to Chicago, IL corridor everyday navigates through an on-going snowstorm near Chillicothe, IL. This eastbound train is led by a v... (more)

Two of Union Pacific's finest race the Intermodal Q131-26 across the CSX St. Louis Line on its long journey from Detroit, MI to Mexico City.

A pair if Iowa Interstate EMD's head southbound on the 2nd Subdivision with a late BUSW-19 freight in tow for Peoria.

Union Pacific's daily trackage rights Vehicle train from Gibson Yard, IN to Mira Loma, CA thunders westbound through Edelstein on BNSF Chilli Subdivision. Guarding the crest of Edelstein Hill are ... (more)

A quartet of BNSF evolution series GE's haul the high-priority Morrisville, PA to Los Angeles, CA (Z-NYCLAC) Intermodal Z-train through Edelstein. The train is ducking under a pair of soon to be o... (more)

After dropping off a string of grain cars to a local industry north of town, the CN R930 job returns back south to Effingham yard as light power. One of the engines working the yard job today is a... (more)