Battle Creek is still the Cereal City. Both Kelloggs and Post still have large manufacturing plants, the latter seen through the fence, dwarfing Amtrak's Twilight Limited as it slows to get make ... (more)

The Grand Elk local exits the controlled siding at CP14 just over the Michigan-Indiana state line, headed timetable south for work in nearby Bristol. This CTC dates back to NYC's modernization of... (more)

SP Chicago-Roper manifest rolls west at Wyanet on BN trackage rights.

The SW Chief gets underway on it's western journey popping out from under the Post Office.

The WSOR executive train waits at the depot.

2005 NRHS Brooklyn Roundhouse tour netted this opportunity on a very rainy Pacific Northwest kind of day.

A short #198 with only 11 cars makes time past the depot at Columbus reminicent of the Milwaukee Road Sprint service that onetime ran past this spot. Note the old Amtrak "arrow" logo sign, still ... (more)

2005 NRHS night photo session at the old SP Brooklyn roundhouse. Encroaching containers and the need for even more space puts this facility on UP's hit list. Provia 100F scanned. Lighting by Ste... (more)

WSOR holiday excursion with the bi-levels before they got repainted to WSOR colors drifts past the Mazo mill pond.

Soo geep has the lead on 229's train at W. Dav.

Taken a year earlier than pic #206002, GTW 6217 is seen once again, this time in charge of an eastbound crossing over at CP Bend on CR trackage in downtown South Bend. My notes say symbol EMPO, d... (more)

On the approach to Chadwick, IL., the SP4449 completes it's climb out of the Mississippi River valley and will soon encounter the hill 'n dale of the west end of the C&I.

BN executive power captured at the Galesburg yard sitting on the Quincy Main.

A hot Santa Fe eastbound nears the crossovers at Yost.

For a minute, the skyline of the state capital of Wisconsin features 3 domes, 2 of which are seen on this passenger extra departing for Janesville on a mild Thanksgiving weekend.