Southbound Manifest A420 comes around the bend at Wyatt with a quartet of EMD motors in charge.

A good start to the 4th of July of a Northbound with an IC Deathstar EMD SD70 in charge as they pass through Lake Cormorant, MS.

A good start to the 4th of July of a Northbound with an IC Deathstar EMD SD70 in charge as they pass through Sledge, MS.

A good start to the 4th of July of a Northbound with an IC Deathstar EMD SD70 in charge as they pass through Swan Lake, MS.

A Canadian National Freight Train is seen here tied down in the siding at Effingham, IL, awaiting a new crew to take the Train south

Triple Death Stars

Three Illinois Central SD70’s work the former EJ&E yard in Spaulding, Illinois. The death stars are twenty years old this month.

IC 1028 leads southbound Bessemer ore loads through RX at Albion PA

At the time of the photo, IC SD70 1011 was the only one of the fleet wandering CN's system. The rest were either working out of Illinois (mainly Chicago) or on the former BLE property. Here it is ... (more)

After finishing their work at the P&C dock in Conneaut, Ohio, the trio of IC SD70s on the point of CN train U70261 pause next to Conneaut Creek as the conductor gets a lift to the head-end.

CN's "Peoria Local" heads south to Decatur with a heavy train.

IC SD70 #1029 along with CN SD70M-2 #8847, are seen here sitting in Yazoo City, MS, awaiting their next move

Briefly after I got my drone back under control (it tried to fly away...), CN A408 speeds south through Pesotum behind a pair of consecutively numbered IC SD70 locomotives.

IC 1036 leads L536 around the Gary curve, rolling into Kirk yard.