An eastbound ICG piggyback train storms through the Illinois Central passenger station at Rockford behind a trio of Paducah rebuild Geeps.

Verne Brummel (photographer) / Dave Cramer (photo editing). Visit our websites at - www.trainsite.8m.com/rrslides.html ---and--- Railroad: Burlington Northern Railroad
Locomotive: EMD GP7
Location: Rockford, Illinois, USA
Locomotive #: BN 1604
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June, 1975

The UP crew has pulled their empty centerbeam from the lumber yard a couple blocks up. They now start their trip back down the line towards downtown. Where they will tie onto their other car and h... (more)

Having just come off the KD Line with their one empty centerbeam. The crew ties onto the empty flat car and prepares to head back east to Belvidere with their big train of two cars.

UP light power slowly make their way up the KD line to grab a empty centerbeam. The KD line was an old Chicago and Northwestern line which ran from Rockford IL. to Kenosha Wi. The line now ends in... (more)

A Union Pacific local makes its way across the partially frozen Rock River with a lone empty flat car from a customer a little farther west down the line.

One of the few remaining WC GP40s left on the active CN roster heads down the East Belt in Rockford to switch some customers. This job is based out of Freeport Illinois.

WC 3010, one of the few remaining WC GP40s on the CN roster, has already switched one customer, but there is still work to be done on the East Belt.

Saturday, May 2, 1981 finds the eastbound "Blackhawk" coming under the Winnebago Street viaduct as it slows for its station stop in Rockford, IL. P30CH 717 has a pair of Amcoaches and a single Amc... (more)

Earlier in August of '75 during its nationwide tour, the AFT duties had been handed off by the RDG 2101 (AFT #1) to the SP 4449 when the two rendezvoused at Proviso. But it almost didn't happen. ... (more)

Tom Harris sent this location information. "Your photo of the Land O' Corn was taken crossing Corbin St. The empty track immediately left of the train was Case Siding."

Sitting forgotten in a field in industrial Rockford are several relics of the Milwaukee Road, all, like this one, still with their original MILW reporting marks!