Material Services Corporation Whitcomb center cab 0154 rocks over the "snap" track with an empty gravel train enroute from Lockport to Plainfield, IL, at Weber Road. Today this area is strip mall... (more)

NKP 765 spots the Train Festival 2011 excursion at the former Rock Island depot at Bureau Junction, IL, for passenger loading.

Northwest Suburban Mass Transist District F40C 49 leads an outbound train past the Chicago suburban stop at Western Avenue. This unit later became Metra 609. Sears Tower looms in the background

A perfect A-B-B-A set of F7s drag a train of Groveland Mine taconite into Iron Mountain for interchange with the C&NW and forwarding to Escanaba. 109A, 70B, 89B and 70C are captioned nicely by th... (more)

BN E9 9986, formerly CB&Q 9986A, forwards a morning, Chicago-bound suburban train eastbound just east of the River Road crossing west of Naperville, IL. These were the days before all trains carr... (more)

Parlor car attendant waves a highball from the platform at Joliet, IL. GM&O 31 seat parlor "Springfield" carries the markers and provides the first class service on the Abraham Lincoln this day

Westbound Rio Grande freight trailed by "Cookie Box" painted caboose 01486 meets an eastbound coal train lead by 5354 and four additional SD40T-2s at the Plainview siding. Crew members off of eac... (more)

Amtrak P30 719 is seen at full flight through Gardener, IL, on St. Louis-bound Train 303.

Amtrak 595 and an unidentifed E unit roll Amtrak 21 toward a station stop at Springfield, IL.

A southbound unit coal train's headend crew prepares to pick-up orders on the fly at the Wabash-GM&O Iles tower on the south side of Springfield.

D&RGW GP30s 3008 and 3013 drag empty limestone gons towards the Highway 50 crossing just below the quarry at Monarch. Until it was standard gauged in 1956, this now-abandoned branch sported K-36 ... (more)

Amtrak 22 pauses for passengers in the late afternoon sun at the old GM&O passenger station in Springfield, IL. Former SAL tavern-observation 6601, now Amtrak 3341, adds a punctuation mark to the... (more)

A westbound N&W freight rolls out of Decatur towards Taylorville, IL, led by U30B 8521 and a pair of older Geeps.

During one of the worst central Illinois winters in memory, a northbound "slingshot" piggyback train, powered by ICG GP35 2501, became mired in snowdrifts south of Springfield. GM&O F3s 800B and ... (more)

Amtrak F40 228, from the first order of F40s, departs Chicago with afternoon Detroit train 354. In the background, inbound Train 49 backs into 14th Street yard after a trip around the wye.