Crossing the diamonds near the CN yard.

Classic Illinois Central power pulls coal empties out of the CN Decatur Yard.

Rare elephant style tac train heads north out of Allen Jct... unfortunate about all the new signal ugliness.

Seeing four units elephant style on the Missabe is pretty rare, and with an quickly dying breed leading!

Passing a classic EJ&E searchlight signal, IC 1038 runs solo on this westbound taconite train, headed for the East Joliet Yard and ultimately, Eola Yard (BNSF).

After meeting 314, the counterpart 313 departs Longlac and twists through the Junction with a pot pouri of carload traffic such as finished vehicles, wall board, drilling tube, steel beams seen he... (more)

An IC leader brings a westbound train through Woodstock.

Look at this beaut powering the dinky trains in her day along the Chicago Racetrack, IC 101 sitting outside on display at CN's Family Day. IC 101 was acquired by the Illinois Central in 2/1995, BN... (more)

IC 6202 passes the yard office, as it pulls out of East Joliet for headroom.

It's September 15th, 2011 and Illinois Central SD40's are still out and about. Here, 6202 (looking great) leads CN 9460 into the East Joliet Yard, with an 81 car Aux Sable job.

IC 1037 approaches the Rock, with its rail train.

IC 1037 waits for a signal into the East Joliet Yard.

Illinois Central 2-8-2 1516 was built in 1918 as ICRR 1810. She had 63" drivers, 27 x 30 inch cylinders, boiler pressure of 185 lbs, and could exert up to 54,583 lbs of tractive effort. She was on... (more)

B795 (Frontier-Niagara Falls Yard) heads north out of the South Yard with quite the leader...IC 1003. IC 1003 came in off of CN Run-through train Q620, got sent west to Frontier on Q627, then endi... (more)

IC 6252, 6250, and 6254 thunder up Spirit Mountain with a train of empties from dock 6 in tow for Proctor. Local rumors say that this may be the last summer for the SD40's on the Missabe Range, bu... (more)