A Santa Fe Operation Life Saver Special makes a brief stop at Chillicothe Illinois on the ATSF main in 1987.

A Santa Fe Operation Life Saver Special makes a brief stop in Chillicothe Illinois on the ATSF main. The train ran from Chicago to Galesburg and returned to Chicago on this day in 1987, and fortun... (more)

UP Operation Lifesaver special operating between Manly and Mason City on the former Rock Island.

Waiting for departure time at King Street Station an Operation Lifesaver Special will head south to Portland, OR. This train sponsored by Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Amtrak and Burlington No... (more)

UP 2010 leads the Operation: Lifesaver special through Elgin, Illinois, on their last day in the area.

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer unit leads an Operation Life Saver Special over the Fox River and under US 20 in Elgin with UP 2010 on the other end to lead on the way back. Been wanting to get ... (more)

A nice clean roster shot of the BSA Anniversary locomotive basking in the sun on a warm August day at the Illinois Railway Museum.

The BSA Anniversary locomotive sits at the Illinois Railway Museum with the Operation Life Saver special for a few hour layover at the museum as passengers check out the museum and have lunch.

After a good, hearty freight chase south down the Hill, driving back north to the summit, something strange happened. Far off in the distance, a little sliver train pokes over the hill. No way, th... (more)

A UP Operation Life Saver Special ties down for the night in the Phippsburg yard

It's crew change time for E9 949, on the point of an Operation Lifesaver Special deadheading from Sheldon, Iowa to Mason City, Iowa.

UP's Operation Lifesaver Special is en route from Sheldon to Mason City, Iowa, passing the old junction with the Omaha Road Branch to Sioux Falls, S.D. at Org.

A UP Operation Livesaver train with E9 949 on the south end and UP B-unit 963 plus A unit 951 on the back begins its trip back north splitting the signals on the old MoPac line in Momence near the... (more)