This train came off the BN at Ottumwa and onto the SOO where it is seen passing Nahant Yard nearing its destination at the Riverside Generating Plant on the other side of town. K200 scanned

Conrail's Elkhart-Streator manifest makes the turn onto the Porter branch enroute to Streator, IL., and handoff to the Santa Fe. The CSX Grand Rapids line is seen in the distance, semaphores at t... (more)

A rather handsome paint scheme if I may say so.

Look Ma, no ditch lights anywhere in this scene! BN coal loads make their way through West Dav yard. This power was leased to the BN. K200 scanned

Merry Christmas!

SOO manifest throttles up after a speed restriction at the bend in the river at LeClaire. The Mississippi channel is fairly narrow at this spot, Port Byron, IL., can be easily seen across the riv... (more)

SOO daily "hotshot" from the Twin Cities to KC, the 431 train, nears the junction at Samoa.

SOO 6024 swings onto the old Rock Golden State main at West Dav off the Dri-Line.

The International Limited is out of Kalamazoo, passing the campus of WMU westbound.

I'm standing in Illinois shooting a picture of a train in Indiana. State Line Tower is history.

Westbound NS Roadrailer nears the diamonds crossing the UP/IMRL routes at Birmingham, just outside KC.

A set of light power drifts away from me as a Roadrailer passes behind it at the junction 10 miles east of KC.

The CP Holiday train making like a comet rolls over the frozen Wisconsin River illuminating the nightime sky.

Merry Christmas.

CP Holiday Train highballs Portage for the North Pole.