Train 23, The Grand Canyon. A Roger Puta Photograph

A Santa Fe Operation Life Saver Special makes a brief stop in Chillicothe Illinois on the ATSF main. The train ran from Chicago to Galesburg and returned to Chicago on this day in 1987, and fortun... (more)

A hot Z from Willow Springs, Illinois to Alliance, Texas is blasting into the sunset attempting to gain speed to attack the famed "Edlisten Hill" just west of here. The train is passing... (more)

Iowa 708 leads a passenger excursion south into Chillicothe, passing the old Rock Island depot.

Iowa Interstate GP38-2 #708 leads a passenger special into Chillicothe

BNSF's 101 local from Galesburg to Streator is running light engine on M2 but has to wait for four westbounds before it can cross over to M1 to get around some M-of-W.

Iowa Interstate's Bureau Switcher has just dropped off a bunch of hoppers and the end loader didn't waste any time loading them with sand.

Back when Amtrak was hauling something profitable the "Southwest Limited" heels into a curve as it leaves Edelstein Hill and approaches its next stop. The dust of the great Southwest de... (more)

Beginning its 1.1% assault up Edelstein Hill, a westbound intermodal Q-train off the CSXT in Chicago leans into Houlihan's Curve on the outskirts of Chillicothe with an attractive lash-up in charg... (more)

The late-spring sun baths the Illinois landscape as westbound Chicago (Corwith), IL to Stockton, CA doublestack train Q-CHISTO6 12L begins its climb up Edelstein Hill as it works its way around Ho... (more)

A door is a door, I guess.

Three BNSF GE's elephant style lead this westbound stack train on BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision around Houlihan's Curve west of Chillicothe, Illinois on June 22, 2015.

BNSF leads a westbound stacker out of Chillicothe, IL on a beautiful late summer afternoon.

BNSF 7500 East passes a waiting M-GALIHB on the BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision.