Crude oil empties from St. James, La., destined for Wash, Utah, make their way out of Manhattan on March 18, 2024 led by Union Pacific's "Spirit" commemorative locomotive which honors the United S... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Decatur, Ill., to Normal, Ill., local freight D32 brings it to a stop west of Brokaw on the ex-Nickel Plate Road portion of the Bloomington District, January 28, 2022. They will... (more)

Canadian National's southbound "Peoria Local," L557, with an Illinois Central "Death Star" as sole power crosses over North Oakland Avenue (state Route 48) in my hometown of Decatur on January 12,... (more)

CSX J713 from Danville, Ill., has just crossed Lake Decatur with a GP60 (a rarity on the railroad's roster) in the lead on February 18, 2018. CSX Transportation has since sold the Decatur Subdivis... (more)

Led by a pair of Canadian National C40-8Ms with matching "zebra stripes," coal empties from a Michigan power plant for the Black Thunder Coal Mine in Wyoming are coming off the "Quincy Main" (Broo... (more)

On March 8, 2017 the Keokuk Junction Railway's freight out of Mapleton, Ill., soars over the Spoon River with the F-unit A-B-A set and a special treat, PREX SW1300 1301, in the Fulton County villa... (more)

On the former Santa Fe Transcon, Amtrak's Phase I 40th Anniversary unit leads the eastbound Southwest Chief as it crosses over Ellison Creek on a large railroad trestle east of Media on Feb... (more)

An eastbound version of the Norfolk Southern Illinois Division employee special (Christmas Train), led by the railroad's "Honoring Our Veterans" (NS 6920) and "Honoring First Responders" (NS 9-1-1... (more)

With its classy "F-units" in the lead, the Keokuk Junction Railway lumps over the old Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (now the BNSF Brookfield Sub) at Bushnell on December 12, 2016. Take away the mod... (more)

In the "island city" of Sabula, a SOO Line GP38-2 leads Canadian Pacific local train B67 on October 25, 2016 as it shoves eastward over the mighty Mississippi River towards Savanna, Ill., via a sw... (more)

After running up to "Frontier Days" in Cheyenne, Wyo., earlier in the day, UP 844 and UP DDA40X 6936 roll down the Greeley Subdivision back to Denver in the evening hours of July 20, 2013.

Southern Serves central Illinois? The Southern heritage unit leads the Detroit-Kansas City, Mo., TripleCrown "RoadRailer" in the Sangamon County village of Curran, 10 miles west of t... (more)

Union Pacific's Chicago and NorthWestern (C&NW) heritage unit leads the City of Industry, Calif., to Global 4 (Joliet, Ill.) trackage rights Z-Train (ZCIG4) through the control point of Edelstein ... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Central of Georgia heritage unit catches the last rays of sunlight on July 27, 2016 as it solo blasts a Detroit to St. Louis mixed freight at "BD Junction" on the NS Brooklyn Di... (more)

Follow the Flag. Norfolk Southern's Wabash heritage unit is right at home on former territory on July 22, 2016 as it leads a Detroit-Kansas City, Mo., TripleCrown across Lake Decatur... (more)