Highballin' Columbus on a gorgeous October day...

Eastbound at CTC Dodge West on the CP.

A late running Empire Builder cuts across the autumnal Wisconsin landscape.

Displaying the new unified "North American" scheme, GTW-lettered 6421 & 6418 wait for a turn to get on the single track at Schoolcraft.

A CSX manifest crosses the old Monon route at Mitchell. The home signals had just been upgraded, spelling the end for another classic B&O CPL set on cantilever mounts.

The days are getting longer, but the river still shows signs of the winter that hangs on as empty coal hoppers cross into Iowa.

The keystone shape on the tower gives away the predecessor's identity.

The friendly Operator at Danville tends to duties knowing the days of this job are numbered.

Making the turn off the Brookfield sub onto the Ottumwa sub, this empty coal train has completed leg one of its reload cycle.

Action at Monmouth on a fine Sunday afternoon includes empty hoppers led by an almost-new warbonnet.

Our goal was to shoot a few pics of new warbonnets passing the soon to be removed semaphores, but we got this SP train off the GM&O instead. Notice the blades have already been removed from the s... (more)

SP run through on the BN hustles south with manifest. 9741 was in the second batch of GP60s ordered by SP.

Christmas Eve 1990 and all is quiet at the BN Cicero pit, a fresh coating of snow brightens the scene. GT picked these up from UP, they were regulars on the manifest to Galesburg.

Taken a year earlier than pic #206002, GTW 6217 is seen once again, this time in charge of an eastbound crossing over at CP Bend on CR trackage in downtown South Bend. My notes say symbol EMPO, d... (more)

Operator Terry Shearer has Amtrak #392 in the picture to deal with. In 2008 Terry works as a RTC at Homewood, IL.