Crew has used control box to get signal to crossover C & I main to pull sand cars from the Mt. Morris branch. Local will run up the ill to serve sand plant west of Oregon.
IRs 104 job crawls over the Fox River inbetween Montgomery & Oswego, with a trio of SD40s.
IR 5006, an HBR paint SD50, leads a cut of sand empties from Zearing southbound out of Ladd, IL.
Normally, IRs 104 job returns back to Wedron light power... but today they have 40 empties with them. Heres 104 crawling into downtown Yorkville with a trio of SD40s
With snow falling down, and the city if Aurora standing talk in the background, a trio of OMLX SD40s take a long 80 car sand train around the curve, and Into the W Eola control point.
On a cold Thursday evening, Illinois Railways 104 job makes a run to BNSFs Eola Yard. Seen here curving outside of Yorkville with a pair of OmniTracks (OMLX) SD40s.
HBR 5009 and another Hudson Bay SD50 leading the IR 105 job back North towards Peru where they would tie up for the day.
OMLX SD40-2 7193 leads a daylight Railnet sand train east through downtown Aurora.
IR tunnel motor 9238 rests in Ottawa.
The IR's Tunnel Motor sits outside the shop in Ottawa.
While nothing might run like a Deere, the Illinois Railway's Zearing Job makes a leisurly shove to the BNSF interchange at Zearing, Illinois with eleven cars for interchange. Lead GP35 3500 is the... (more)
A trio of Hudson Bay SD50's roll North out of Serena, IL with a train of hoppers.
Canon 17-40mm L Canon EOS 60D
The Railnet heads west through Yorkville with their former SP tunnel motor on the point.
