Freshly painted at the Centralia paint shop CN 2124 is placed on public display at the local Amtrak station. Recently purchased from Union Pacific. Ex. UP 9089. Ex. CNW 8577.

Coal & wreckage from a major derailment shut down this CN line for about 24 hours.

A Conrail gondola flips over with the help of an excavator. It's the end of the line for this gon as NS scraps several next to its main line near downtown Decatur.

Motive Power Industries new Genset demonstrator rests at the CN yard.

The new Leviathan 4-4-0 steams across the Camp Creek bridge on its way to downtown Monticello.

Restored Southern 401 taking on water the weekend of its maiden runs.

Rare view inside the BNSF Hump Tower at Galesburg. The Hump Yard Master views trains through tinted windows and carefully monitors traffic on a bank of computers.

The Norfolk Southern employee Santa train brings three car loads of excited kids through downtown Decatur. Manufactured in 1959 this great looking locomotive is on loan from the Monticello Railwa... (more)

Newly painted CN 2124 moves past the roundhouse. It will be taken to downtown Centralia and put on public display for one day. Ex. UP 9089. Ex. CNW 8577.

UP 3985 pulls into rural Gorham to be serviced and turned before heading back to St. Louis. This locomotive was last in regular service in 1957. It is one of only two of the original 105 Union P... (more)

New look & paint for this ex Illinois Central GP 10. Rebuilt with a single Detroit Diesel DX370M 550hp genset. Railserve calls this a "LEAF" locomotive providing low emission service and reducin... (more)

Leviathan on display at the Monticello Railway Museum.

New RSSX "Leaf" Genset waiting in the CN Decatur yard for delivery to ADM. Built from a GP 10 using a Detroit Diesel low emission engine. This is ADM's third Genset from RSSX.

Two sets of eyes are better than one on a Challenger steam locomotive, UP 3985, on the UP Chester Sub in Southern Illinois. Built in 1943 by the American Locomotive Company.

An FRA track geometry car has cleared the Wabash - Illinois Central diamonds. It will run south to inspect CN tracks from Decatur to Mattoon. This self-propelled car holds up to 20 people, has a... (more)