Track geometry train #904 crosses the Illinois River bridge at Valley City.

Majestic view of the Mississippi River and BNSF's K-Line from the Lover's Leap overlook in Hannibal, MO.

Thanks to a fortuitous radio conversation between a BNSF train at Jacksonville and the NS Springfield/Hannibal District dispatcher, I was able to get the jump on this early running #398 and catch ... (more)

NS #145 departs Decatur as its rounds the big curve east of CN/IC diamonds at Wabic.

A grain train with a fresh crew out of Radnor Yard heads north towards Nashville Union Station.

Loaded grain train D2M sits in the Pass at Righter waiting for westbound empty counterpart D2R as the sun sets over Central Illinois.

NS D37 heads south to I&M's Shops Yard as it passes the classic searchlight home signal at North Grand Avenue.

NS D32 rolls past the elevator at Derby as the train heads west on the old Nickel Plate Peoria Division toward Good Yard in Normal.

NS #145 is looking good at Island Grove with a spartan cab SD60 on the point and healthy-sized train of Ford auto parts.

The KCS Local "takes the connection" at the Brickyard on CN's Gilman Subdivision as it heads back west to Cockrell and home rails southwest of Springfield after working the Illinois & Midland inte... (more)

D37 rolls under the old C&NW bridge at Curran with 100 cars of extra Naples and Meredosia branch traffic picked up off the Pass in New Berlin.

Undefiled SP SD40M-2 8681 leads UP train MBNAS south at Sand Hill Road. This locomotive was rebuilt from N&W SD45 1753 by MK in November 1994.

Foreign power from UP and BNSF are common on 55T and today's train passing the old grain elevator at Dawson has one unit from both of the Western giants.

A BNSF coal train rolls south along the Mississippi River near Ilasco, Missouri on glorious October afternoon.

Work finished at Bluffs, NS #398 climbs up out of the Illinois River valley as the train approaches Dalton. 33J is patiently waiting for #398 in the Pass at Chapin.