While adventurous people raft the Weber River, a Union Pacific ethanol train glides west down the Evanston Sub at Henefer. The UP 6956 was built the UP 7567 in Nov. 2000 as an C60AC. It would late... (more)

Cutting through rural Alpha, IL., a BNSF ethanol train gets a green light to proceed down the mainline while an Amtrak special enroute to TrainFest waits on the siding behind me. It was announced... (more)

After dragging 82 loads and two buffer cars out of the plant with a GP8 and a SW, the power has been tied down and the crew has gone home. Later on that night a crew came back out and handed the t... (more)

A loaded ethanol train nears the western suburbs of Chicagoland.