Big Power and Lots of It. 10 of BNSFs GEs Lead a Shot Z Train East Toward Chicago as it passes through the Illinois Farmland on a chilly and windy Day in Mid March.

5 Big GEs Lead This Eastbound Intermodal on the Chilli Sub, as it passes through the rural Illinois Farm Land, and the tiny town of Edelstein.

CN's Peoria local slows to switch a grain elevator at Emsden, IL.

M GALCSX1 08A with a SD70MAC leads a manifest hrough CP1395 near Edelstein, IL.

BNSF Z-train with a fake bonnet in the lead makes it way off Edelstein hill.

GE locomotives rule the BNSF transcon, just not quite this old.

Interesting that there are three steel loads at the head-end of this UP autorack train.

A DPU brings up the rear of this empty northbound coal drag. It is seen passing a farm field full of pumpkins, running alongside Union Pacific Road just north of Edelstein.

This northbound UP mixed freight is currently awaiting the passage of a southbound before proceeding onto the single track. The small burg of Princeville, Illinois can be seen on the horizon in th... (more)

Just a few minutes before sunset, 4 ES44's charge west into the setting sun and under the classic Santa Fe signal bridges.

A BNSF manifest works east through the dip near Edelstein, IL at sunset.

A westbound BNSF local (presumably) heads west into the sunset behind a pair of former ATSF widenose GE's. Those GE's feel at just as "at home" passing under the interlocking signals at Edelstein... (more)

A westbound BNSF manifest was crossing through the crossovers at Edelstein, IL on Sept. 10, 1996, led by C44-9W No. 696.