BNSF 5493 leads an eastbound V train on the peavine.

Two Santa Fe engines take a manifest east through Colona

Eastbound manifest

Eastbound manifest rolls through Colona.

BNSF 1568 leads two other rebuilt SD45-2 type locomotives on BNSF's Barstow Subdivision

A CSX SD40-2 and SD60M team up on a vehicle train from Blue Island, IL to Portland, OR seen passing the IAIS connection at Colona.

An NS SD60E and an IAIS SD38-2 team up on a 99-load, 5-empty Silvis to Peoria grain train through the BNSF connection at Colona.

A westbound freight led by a quartet of GE U-boats gets ready to thump across Burlington Northern's Galesburg to Savanna mainline. Kodachrome slide processed in September 1974.

Recently rebuilt by the shops at Silvis, Rock Island GP7R 4500 leads a westbound under the cantilever signal bridge guarding eastbound movements over Burlington Northern's Galesburg to Savanna mai... (more)

Half an hour out of Silvis yard, FP7A 406 heads through the riverbottom swamps east of Colona, Illinois, on its way to Chicago. The unit, along with nine sisters, is four feet longer than a standa... (more)

Those accustomed to Rock Island in maroon or red were startled in 1975 when the road’s new president John Ingram started painting cars and locomotives in white and blue. But Ingram had come out ... (more)

The Conrail heritage leads an eastbound ethanol train from Silvis to Peoria, IL through the "wiggle" at Colona, a junction with the BNSF.

BNSF's Clinton to Galesburg manifest splits the block signals at MP 42.3 between Barstow and Colona. This is the approach signal to ESS Barstow.

The IAIS operated a special train to move CN 2191 from Chicago to NRE's Silvis, IL shop. CN 2191 was involved in a wreck at Slinger, WI and is being taken to NRE for evaluation.