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 Atchison, 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)

A westbound BNSF doublestack with NS power heads west through Edelstein just after sunset.

On a crystal clear morning, four matching Union Pacific AC45CCTEs bring an empty Norma, WI bound rock sand train up through Edelstein, IL, milepost 60.71 on UP's seldom-used Peoria Subdivision. O... (more)

BNSF 940 and a UP GE lead train V-BLUBEL under the Santa Fe searchlight signals in Edelstein, IL. - 10/13/13

A loaded auto train from Blue Island, IL, to Kansas City, MO, is meeting an empty grain train X-FTXRUF9-02 bound for loading at Ruff, IL. The train are meeting at track speed at the crossovers at ... (more)

Quietly basking in the gorgeous evening light, the small town of Edelstein suddenly erupts in a 17,600 horsepower roar as four BNSF General Electric units grind upgrade with a high-priority Willow... (more)

Westbound Willow Springs, IL, to North Bay, CA, Z-train hammers thru the crossovers at Edelstein as they meet an eastbound stack train. Today's Z-train has 4 new C4 GE's fresh off the factory floo... (more)

After just barely making the climb up Edelstein Hill, high-priority westbound container train Q-CXOLAC1 24A thunders across main one through the small community of Edelstein on BNSF's Chillicothe ... (more)

Leaving the Illinois River Valley behind, westbound empty coal train E-CICBTM0 03R roars toward the setting sun as it ducks underneath of pair of ATSF searchlight signal bridges at Edelstein, IL a... (more)

A hot westbound cruises up Edelstein Hill at first light on the last day of March 2015.