Westbound empty coal train passes under the classic coal tower that still stand tall over the UP Geneva Sub.

It's still pretty much all-EMD on the C&NW as a westbond intermodal train crosses the oddly braced Rock River bridge just west of the junction town of Nelson.

Faded 5518 leads a freshly repainted SD40-2 and a train up from St Louis west on the mainline. The GP40 came from Conrail, but was originally an NYC locomotive.

A Chicago and North Western coal train heads west through Nelson, Illinois, on the afternoon of October 9, 1994. Two GE Dash 8-40Cs, Nos. 8543 and 8573 power the empty train of new hoppers.

Toward sunset on October 9, 1994, a westbound coal train on the Chicago and North Western at Nelson, Illinois, is pulled by a new GE Dash 9 and two older Dash 8s. The old steam locomotive coaling ... (more)

UP 8736 head west on the UP Geneva Sub at 319 PM

A pair of SD70M's race through Nelson on a 84 degree winter's day. Lot's of trains that day too.

A pair of SD70M's run under the old coaling rower at Nelson. It sure looks like it was whittled away at over the years.

Passing under the ex CNW Coaling tower.

Eastbound Z-train from Salt Lake City, UT, to Global 1, in Chicago, IL, works east past one of two coal towers that still stand over the mainline on this ex-Chicago North Western East-West Main. N... (more)

Nighttime falls on the small yard in Nelson, IL on the Union Pacific's Geneva Subdivision. A westbound passing on the mainline lights up an eastbound loaded coal train that is tied up on one of th... (more)

GE vs GM - a Southern Pacific AC4400CW faces off against a Union Pacific SD9043AC, on the south side of Nelson back in 1999.

A Empty UP coal train makes it's way under the old CNW Coal elevator that stands in Nelson, IL.

M-PRCB with a nice lash-up storms under the C&NW coaling tower at Nelson. The signals in Nelson are almost all C&NW too, but within a year UP will have the signals replaced and the coaling tower r... (more)