Amtrak's Southwest Chief crosses the Ellison Creek Valley with the Veterans leading the Phase I specially painted P42's. BNSF is preparing to replace the Media Trestle this year.

The fog has lifted enough to fly the drone up and grab a shot of this west bound BNSF train crossing the trestle at Media, IL

BNSF 8051 leads a stack train west over the Media trestle.

Four elephant-style GE C30-7s pull a Santa Fe piggyback westbound over Media Trestle east of Media, Illinois, on the warm spring day of May 31, 1986. The lead and trailing locomotives are brightly... (more)

NS's N&W heritage unit leads the Q-FTMNSA east over the Media trestle.

Flying over the Media Trestle
A Santa Fe intermodal train speeds eastbound over the Media Trestle at Media, Illinois, at 10:12 a.m. on May 31, 1986. Lead SD40-2 trails a F45, another SD... (more)

A BNSF stack train splits the signals at a very high speed with two additional units shoving on the rear. This train was wasting no time just like the Santa Fe used to do.

BNSF 7604 leads a westbound stack train across the Media trestle. A huge thanks goes out to the Bigger family for inviting us onto their property to take pictures!

A westbound container train rolls across the Media trestle, over 200 miles west of the windy city. A very special thanks goes out to the Bigger family, for inviting us onto their property to take ... (more)

BNSF container flies across the trestle at Media on it's way to Long Beach.

The corn had already been harvested when three SD40-2s raced across Media Trestle in Media, IL with a westbound BNSF intermodal train on Sept. 13, 1996.

Amtrak's Southwest Cheif races west thru the western Illinois as they cross the tressel over Ellison Creek near Media. Media is located between Smithshire and Stronghurst, or about 27 miles east ... (more)