After watching this train at Huntsville, Missouri, about 30 or so miles away, I knew a chase was expected. NS 6959 leads train 120 past Corbett (Holliday, Missouri).
With only seconds to spare to get the shot, I pulled this off. Hot on the heals of train 120, train 122 rolls into Paris, Missouri on a warmer winter day.
BNSF 6922 pulls a stack train through the many fields of Missouri.
BNSF 288 pulls train BNSF M-GALGAL towards Galesburg, Illinois on frigid winters day...
BNSF 4099 wraps around the many curves on the Aurora Subdivision, near the Mississippi River
BNSF 5398 leads a stack train south/eastbound, towards Chicago
BNSF C44-9W 4099, leads a Chicago bound Q-Train, just south of La Crosse, Wisconsin.
NS 5097 pulls local D25 towards Centralia, and then later Mexico, Missouri.
NS train 27M, zooms past the still standing searchlight signals on the east end of Benton City Siding. TWC ABS territory
UP 1989 cuts across Missouri with NS train 239.
UP Heritage on Norfolk Southern trackage, awesome! UP 1989 pulls train 239 up to speed, after being held for eastbound train 285
A lone GP20C-ECO, sits underneath the looming power lines that run by the industrial area of Cordova, Illinois.
Black and white coal load from across a field... Pretty cool, eh?
Why walk on water when we've got trains? BNSF 8593 rolls through Canton, Missouri with a stuck horn.