An A-B-A SD40-2 hump set idles at the engine facility.
A former Santa Fe F45 takes on a new life as Great Northern 441. Filling the next number slot of GN F45s, the 441 is heading for the Izaak Walton Inn in Essex, Montana to become a locomotive cabin... (more)
CBQ 5632 westbound on a Journeys to Yesteryear excrusion operated by the Illini Railroad Club, seen here between Galesburg and Aurora in 1962
BN U28B 5455 awaiting its next assignment at Galesburg, IL in June 1975.
As you can see, the engine facility is playing host to a hoard of Dash 8s, Dash 9s and GEVOs at dusk.
As a remote-controlled SD40-2 switches the yard, a pair of trains in the foreground prepares to exit the departure tracks. The closer train, a GALMAM, is flanked on this side and its front by inte... (more)
A remote-control GP38 pulls hard on a long string of freight cars.
A string of power backs onto a GALMAM on one of the departure tracks.
Dusk at the fuel racks at the Galesburg engine facility.
Three yard jobs work the North end of Galesburg yard, a SD39, SD40 and a SD40-2.
A torrential downpour at the fuel pads makes it appear like night-time, but it's only 4 p.m.
A conductor alights from a Dash 8 near the engine terminal.
Amtrak #3 makes its daily station stop in Galesburg.
A Ore train rolls through town as it slows for a crew change up ahead.
A expired BNSF crew climbs down, and ties down the coal train as it waits for a new crew to take it to Chicago.
