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)

Leaving the Illinois River Valley behind, westbound empty coal train E-CICBTM0 03R roars toward the setting sun as it ducks underneath of pair of ATSF searchlight signal bridges at Edelstein, IL a... (more)

Behind a matched trio of “Building America” dressed GE AC4400s, Union Pacific empty coal train CBPBT9 05 crawls across the frozen waters of the mighty Mississippi River atop the vertical lift ... (more)

Following a meet with its westbound counterpart at Cotter, CP freight #475, moving tonnage between Kansas City and St. Paul-Pigs Eye, rolls east into Fredonia, IA above the confluence of the Iowa ... (more)

Breaking the morning silence, Norfolk Southern's Kansas City, MO to Harrisburg, PA Intermodal train speeds eastbound through Tolono.

Fronted by a lone veteran EMD SD70MAC, 15,000+ tons of fresh Bakken crude on oil train U TNDCXZ0 89T flow eastward past the eclectic colonial barn-style Metra station at Fairview Ave in the Chicag... (more)

With the Chicago & Northwestern heritage unit up front, Manifest train QNPPR-30 from North Platte to Proviso heads eastbound through Rochelle.

With the sun just about to dip below the horizon, a long southbound loaded grain train from Sterling, IL's Rock River Grain Terminal and bound for Pittsburg, TX eases down Union Pacific's seldom-u... (more)

Corwith Yard, IL to Stockton, CA stacks cruise westbound across BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision in the golden late evening light. Quite the consist was on this train tonight and it included an NS E... (more)

Consisting of two SD9043MAC's, an MP15AC and a GP39-2, a behind schedule Proviso Yard to Des Moines, IA Manifest slowly eases past the Rochelle Railroad Park headed westbound.

With Chicago's massive skyline towering above at its back, westbound Gary, IN to Waterloo, IA mixed merchandise train M33791-13 creeps out the city past the grounds of Ping Tom Memorial Park at th... (more)

A couple of BNSF SD70ACe's, the leader being fairly new, drag a long and heavy southbound loaded coal train down the Orin Subdivision and out of the Powder River Basin.

After holding in the yard south of here for several trains, the Villa Grove, IL based "Local 50" sprints north out of town headed for switching duties at various industries along UP's Villa Grove... (more)

Indiana Railroad's Palestine Turn job wakes the small town of Duggar, IN on an otherwise tranquil morning as it returns back east for Hiawatha Yard in Jasonville behind a pair EMD SD9043MACs and a... (more)

A dismal first day of December finds Canadian Pacific’s B70-01 “Ipsco Job” returning back east to Nahant Yard past the massive Continental Cement plant along Highway 22 in Buffalo, IA on the... (more)