Iowa Interstate's PESI 25 road freight takes a slow, 10 mph stroll north through downtown Peoria as it creeps beside Water Street past the many repurposed brick buildings of the city's old Warehou... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound 380 train aka the "Illinois Zephyr" gets the go ahead from the conductor and pulls out of the Galesburg Amtrak station headed for Chicago. The train in a few feet will... (more)

CN 5416, a former Oakway leasing SD60, sits idle on the shop tracks just outside of the Gateway Rail Services Inc in Madison, IL. This was the first unit in a string of six which consisted of thre... (more)

Indiana Railroad's daily Senate Ave Yard (Indianapolis) to Hiawatha Yard (Jasonville) road freight SAHW-22 soars over the south bank of Lake Lemon atop the Shuffle Creek Trestle on its westward jo... (more)

As the early winter sun heads quickly towards the horizon, BNSF's high-priority Morrisville, PA (NS) - Los Angeles, CA intermodal Z-train thunders through the small Illinois community of Edelstein... (more)

Led by a pair of BNSF SD70MAC's, southbound Kansas City Light & Power (KCLX) coal empties snake their way down through the rolling hills of northeastern Wyoming on BNSF's Orin Subdivision near Don... (more)

Behind a hodgepodge of four-axle EMD power, Decatur & Eastern Illinois railroad's 101 road freight splits the small town of Newman in half as it works east over ex-CSXT trackage with a hefty 78 ca... (more)

Southbound Arkansas Power & Light Company (ETRX) coal loads roll down the BNSF's Orin Subdivision past the PLM car repair shop south of Bill, WY. Late afternoon thunderstorms can be seen forming t... (more)

BNSF intermodal train Q-NYCLAC, otherwise called the "Nick Lack," charges westbound under a pair of ATSF searchlight signals at Edelstein along BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision. This train... (more)

An eclectic deuce of locomotives hustle a 96-car Tulsa, OK to Galesburg, IL high-priority mixed merchandise train H TULGAL9 10A across the immense Ellison Creek trestle near the small community of... (more)

The New York Central was one of America's largest operating railroads in the United States northeast throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Headquartered in, you guessed it, New York City, the railroad w... (more)

With the throttle notched all the way up, southbound loaded coal drag CNROL9 23 claws its way toward the summit of Logan Hill and out of the Powder River Basin on BNSF's Orin Subdivision with 100+... (more)

The Missouri Pacific (MoPac) Heritage Unit leads a SB 3-car Operation Lifesaver Passenger Special near the tiny town of Akron, IL. Note the UP 1995 (C&NW) unit at the rear. That would be what lead... (more)

Fallen leaves from another autumn season gone by litter the grounds as Indiana Railroad's 0700 "Bloomington Turn" shoots eastbound across C Street west of Linton on the Indianapolis Sub with eight... (more)

A good looking duo of ex-BN executive SD70MAC's drag E-CXTBTM0 09A, Detroit Edison coal empties, upgrade around Houlihan's Curve. Coal trains are beginning to show up more and more on this line wh... (more)