It's 7:00 p.m. one summer evening, and the light will soon be gone as Burlington heavy Mikado No.5350 moves through the yards under the O Street bridge in Lincoln headed southwest with a long fre... (more)

At Train fest first thing in the morning before the hordes descended and made shooting harder. To much coal smoke drifting by and cutting off light so I had to do it in B&W but giving it a 1950's ... (more)

Bridge is over the Indiana Harbor Belt main

Run by with 5632

These are four coaches in the 7300 series with generators added (nearest end) to power the galley cars since the Q's E-units had steam generators for conventional cars and no HEP.

Union Avenue Tower was the west corner of the wye south of Union Station. It had a pistol grip machine. The top center (north) of the track diagram are the connections to the CNW and St. Charle... (more)

Oiler #211581.

Detector car.

This morning dozens of commuter and intercity trains should have run through here to Chicago but not this Friday. The night before a freight train made a mess of the Q's three-track Aurora to Ch... (more)

Burlington's Denver Zephyr surprised me while I was waiting for the mail train in the background (shown in image 354169). It came out of nowhere and was by me in a flash. It had to be hitting at l... (more)

A mail train headed by a lone CB&Q E7A roared past me on the triple track mainline as she headed for downtown Chicago. This location was probably a little east of Congress Park, Il.

An EMD E9 is stopped at Aurora with the westbound NP NORTH COAST LIMITED. This train always had the cleanest E units the few times that I saw it. This was my "Burlington day" during that week but ... (more)

A CB&Q E8 leads three other E units on a very long DENVER ZEPHYR inbound to Chicago.

A Monday morning finds GP7 243 and SW7 9259 pulling cuts of cars at the east end of Burlington's big freight yard.

Burlington's big O-5B 4-8-4 5632 is serviced at Galesburg enroute from Lincoln, NE to Chicago. I rode the NEBRASKA ZEPHYR from Chicago to intercept the excursion during daylight.