A pair of BNSF GE's lead a westbound stack train under the Santa Fe searchlight signal bridges at Edelstein on a muggy evening in central Illinois.

A DPU set brings up the rear of a westbound at Edelstein, IL as a storm starts to creep into the area.

A low hanging layer of fog has settled in on the northern Illinois prairie as a green signal is displayed for a westbound on BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision. These searchlights date back to the day... (more)

Pulling with all their might, 22,000 horses come over the top of the most formidable mainline grade in the state of Illinois known as Edelstein Hill.

Union Pacific's Chicago and NorthWestern (C&NW) heritage unit leads the City of Industry, Calif., to Global 4 (Joliet, Ill.) trackage rights Z-Train (ZCIG4) through the control point of Edelstein ... (more)

A UP stack train utilizing trackage rights over the BNSF Transcon passes under the Santa Fe era searchlight signals at Edelstein Illinois.

Its a busy morning on the transcon in Central Illinois as a long Z heads west with some DP's pushing while 2 eastbounds wait their turn to get through the plant due to single tracking in Chillicot... (more)

A quick sucker hole in the building cloud cover allows the sun to shine through and illuminate westbound local freight L-CHI1021 16I as it works its way through the quaint community of Edelstein a... (more)

29 minutes after sunrise, two hot shot Z trains meet between the Santa Fe era signal bridges at Edelstein.

An ex-BN locomotive leads the weekend Galesburg to Chicago local under the Santa Fe signal bridge at Edelstein.

Amtrak #836 leads the Southwest Chief thru Houlihan's Curve in the fading light of a beautiful Summer's day. Amtrak no longer uses this line except for the occasional detour.

Time marches on, the calendar turns to another year, but I was pleased to find a solid train of piggyback trailers passing underneath the venerable Santa Fe signals at Edelstein in 2016.

CSX and Norfolk Southern take point on an intermodal train off the former (originating at North Baltimore, Ohio) destined to Hobart Yard in Los Angeles under a classic Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe... (more)

The hot summer sun beats down on the small town of Edelstein as a westbound baretable re-position move from Corwith Yard in Chicago hustles beneath the Santa Fe style searchlight signals that stil... (more)