UP 5344 and two SD70Ms blast through DeKalb at speed, with hot intermodal freight, while a loaded coal train's DPU pushes in the distance.
Former C&NW units in a light move from Proviso to Global III roar at track speed past a slowly-moving eastbound coal train. Also notice the tiny airplane just above the tower.
UP 4812 brings a westbound stacker through the coaling tower and past a ballast train in the siding.
A Pleasant Prairie empty cruises under the famed DeKalb coaling towers in the last minutes of sunlight.
CNW 8646 leads CNW 8701, the last CNW units, east under the DeKalb Coaling Tower.
A trio of UP SD70Ms haul I-G2LA through DeKalb.
At the end of our trip we decided to visit the ex. CNW coaling tower at DeCalb. I came away with a great parting shot as this DPU shoves coal loads east and the sun retreats west beneath the horiz... (more)
3090 and train round the last curve out of DeKalb eastbound, passing the westbound ex-CNW Whistle posts (7 crossings!!).
A run-of-the-mill UP SD70M leads a patched Conrail SD60M west into DeKalb on a beautiful spring afternoon.
An EB stacker heads past the old coaling tower at Dekalb.
An MoW train including an old CNW OLS caboose rests in a siding near downtown DeKalb.
Westbound thru the coal tower passing a concrete tie train in the siding...
An empty coal train ducks under the DeKalb coaling tower just as the sun sets.
A pair of Dash 8's idle away as the sun sets and the clouds form over Chicagoland.
UP switches some industries along the Troy Grove Branch before heading South. This is one of those lines where I thought I'd never shoot a train.
