CNW 6894 passes the tower in Nelson, IL on a brutally cold day in January of 1985. The tower is long gone but the coaling tower in the background still stands.

Eastbound stack train passes under the classic coaling tower at Nelson on a cloudy-fog filled day.

The temperature has yet to break zero as a pair of recently repainted Geeps bring a short local past the coaling tower in Nelson, IL.

On a flawless November afternoon, a westbound empty crude oil train quickly hustles through the small town of Nelson on the Geneva Subdivision with an all EMD lash-up leading the way, which includ... (more)

Westbound empty ethanol train UP UEXCT1 09 off the CSXT in Chicago slowly strolls beneath the large C&NW style signal bridge at NQ (East Nelson), milepost 103 on Union Pacific's busy Geneva Subdiv... (more)

Hotshot Z-train from Global 1 in Chicago, IL, bound for Lathrop, CA, passing under the classic coal tower at Nelson. Nelson is located at MP 104 on the Geneva Sub, about 30 miles from the next cre... (more)

UP 5780 leads an empty coal train under the endangered CNW signal bridge at Nelson. In the background you can see the Nelson coaling tower, long out of use but still in place. For now.

UP 7671 leads a manifest west under one of the few CNW signal bridges still standing in Nelson.

Westbound KG2LT screams under the coaling tower at Nelson with the SP heritage unit in charge.

It's been another busy evening on the Geneva Sub as another westbound lights up the signal bridge and old coaling tower at Nelson, IL.

After a mostly cloudy day, the sun makes a welcome late afternoon appearance just in time to see a westbound with 3 SD9043's tote a manifest under the old coaling tower at Nelson.

A pair of newer ES44AC's ease a stack train under the ex-CNW signal bridge at Nelson, IL as they prepare to make a left turn and head south toward the connection with the BNSF transcon near Edelst... (more)

2 UP coal trains sit idle as an eastbound stack train blasts through the scene and under the old CNW signal bridge.

An empty UP hopper train ducks beneath the defunct coaling tower in Nelson, Illinois as it makes it's way west into the low evening sunlight.

The railroad at Nelson is pretty quiet on this cold night. Not much has moved the past few hours as the signals show all red thru the many control points thru this area. The classic coal tower sti... (more)