One of the many UP detours traverses the Elgin Sub on it's way west.
After coupling all six units together, 701 leads the ferry move south on the old NYC main.
KB&S 705 slows to pick up two cuts from the ADM silos at Swanington.
Metra 153 pulls her midday Scoot out of Wheaton. Next stop, Winfield.
After a BNSF coal train from Wisconsin cleared, G-39 with two GP38s and an SD40-2 lead the G-39 transfer onto the IHB.
After getting the entire train onto the BNSF-IC (CN) joint mainline, the engineer notched the GP60M and SD45 back. Here, they roar by a crossing east of town at 45mph.
Returning from their first shift pull to Eola, the Illinois Railnet crew heads back west/south light to Ottawa to ready the second shift for pull to Eola later in the day.
After a small walk, we find the train entering double track at Y.L. PG on it's way towards CP's Elgin Sub.
UP 8287 leads an empty coal train past Hill 25.
9555 and sister SD70MAC briefly go into run 8 as they slam by on track 3 westbound in Downers.
x-EMC 7205 sits at the Watseka Co-op, next to the UP/CSX mainline.
The yard is alive with 423 idling away. From left to right: METX 423, METX 210, METX 114 & 112, and METX 427. Taken with permission.
As a westbound stacker with an SD70M passes on track 3, UP 5191 sits sleeping on track 2.
Metra 211 sits it's MARS light on while it prepares to head back west, to Elgin.
NS 9644 leads an eastbound manifest past the Hick drawbridges.
