Illinois Central 6071, the first EMD SD40 ever built, is on display as the "IC 6071 Exhibit" at the Monticello Railway Museum's yearly "Railroad Days" event on September 22, 2012. The unit started... (more)

Power on an eventual M GALBRC1 04A waits for its crew on a cold, but sunny afternoon at the north end of BNSF's Galesburg yard on January 4, 2016. In tow are a couple Iowa Pacific E-units heading ... (more)

A westbound vehicle train from Blue Island, Ill., to Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kan., approaches the control point of "Yost" in the village of East Galesburg on November 30, 2015. Luckily an e... (more)

"Blue-Flagged." As storm clouds roll in, a five-unit CN A432 from Decatur, Ill., heading for Memphis, Tenn., is holding just outside of downtown Carbondale on April 25, 2015, while a... (more)

A very nice variety of power (ex-Santa Fe and LMX units) lays over at the Nashville & Eastern Railroad shops in Lebanon, Tennessee, on August 1, 2011. It is headlined by NERR 573 (ex-BNSF, nee-ATS... (more)

Fronted by an ex-Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Yellowbonnet, a line of power waits to be broken up, including the NS 1073 (Norfolk Southern's Penn Central heritage unit) which came into the yard on ... (more)

After setting out a couple cars for Midwest Transload, a short Canadian National local traverses the old Captain Mine Lead on April 25, 2014, heading for the Sparta Sub (ex-GM&O) at Percy for the ... (more)

A coal train bound for the Freeman United Coal Company Crown III mine in Farmersville, Ill., rolls out of Decatur's northwest side with one of Canadian National's new 8900-series SD70M-2s leading ... (more)

A nice Amtrak P32 trails on the northbound Illini (Amtrak 392), waiting to depart at 4:05 p.m. on February 19, 2012. This trainset came down on the southbound Saluki (Amtrak 391) fro... (more)

A BNSF runthrough train to Provo, Utah (H DENPVO1 21A) rounds the small curve at "Cliff" (Pinecliffe) on the Union Pacific Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on July 21, 2013. The train had a small locomot... (more)

Daily Harrisburg, Pa.,-Kansas City, Mo., hotshot NS 21T has just been recrewed in Decatur near the Wabic signals and now departs town with track authority in hand on a hot August 15, 2010. In the ... (more)

Union Pacific's Southern Pacific Heritage Unit (UP 1996) is on point of the UP MCHPB as it enters the north end of Findlay on January 31, 2012. The UP MCHPB is a Belt Railway of Chicago to Pine Bl... (more)

A single UP SD70ACe brings up the rear of a Belvidere, Ill., to Blakes Lee Jct., Wash., auto train as it idles at the Metra station in La Fox on a rainy June 20, 2015.

The NS Illinois Division's Santa/Christmas Train with good friend Bill Crisp as engineer is about to make one of its many runs towards Illiopolis with Wabash 1189 leading on December 10, 2011. Bui... (more)

A "Burlington Northern" trio (A-B-A set) headlines a string of power at the BNSF Galesburg Yard's engine pit on February 1, 2016. The A-B-A sets are normally used to work the "hump" just south of ... (more)