A rare straight SD40 is on the yard job in Galesburg and as a bonus, still in BN whiteface paint. There is no missing the BNSF employee in the bright orange sweat suit.

The Galesburg engine terminal is almost all orange today with plenty of H1, H2, and H3. A few former BN units and some CSX units are also present. An interesting unit in front is the BNSF 3965 yar... (more)

CEFX 1013 and BNSF 6203 being backed into the engine facility in Galesburg.

Two new ACEs being backed into the engine facility in Galesburg.

It was always fun to photograph this high-nose SD9, in full Heritage 1 paint, pulling cars from the Galesburg classification bowl.

A BNSF bonnet leads a manifest down the Quincy main through Illinois farm land.

It's not often you see a pair of SD40s with a matching B-unit between them, but sometimes you get lucky.

The Chicago-Roper manifest is on the Quincy main and headed out of the yard at CP Saluda.

A BNSF eastbound a few miles east of Galesburg at MP 168 on the BNSF Transcon in Illinois.

Trim power pulls a completed train, with a nice consist of combines up-front, from the classification bowl to back into the departure track.

The TP&W job leaves Galesburg on the Peoria line, headed for home.

The Galesburg engine facility, not long before it began to take on the orange hues with which we associate it today, although a close look reveals quite a mixed bag of power at any rate.

The mail train running west on main two is right on time today, as usual for the Santa Fe.

The big time traffic jam! Many locomotives await their next assignments at the Galesburg Yard. Two of note are a Ferromex ES44AC GEVO and an IC SD40-2. Others are BNSF/BN/ATSF Geeps, H1/H2 ... (more)