I was on my way home from Monmouth, Illinois when I saw something green moving through the treeline near the small town of Cameron. Sure enough, a unit John Deer Combine train emerged from the tre... (more)

The westbound Southwest Chief is right on time as it makes it's way across the former Santa Fe bridge in Fort Madison, Iowa. At Ft. Madison, the train wil leave the Chillicothe Sub and enter the M... (more)

A westbound UP haulage rights train rolls under the former US&S H5 searchlights at CP G.I in Galesburg, Illinois.

The eastbound Carl Sandberg hustles east toward Galva, Illinois and it's next station stop of Kewanee, Illinois.

A westbound Z-WSPLAC9-07L races past a corn field just west of the small town of Cameron, Illinois.

The old Santa Fe steel trestle at Media is dearly missed, but the new concrete and steel bridge is nonetheless a rather impressive structure nestled in the rolling hills of western Illinois. Here,... (more)

Screaming eastbound, three Montana Rail Link SD45's are in charge of the M-SPOLAU1-06A on a beautiful mid summer morning. The train is skirting the banks of the Yellowstone River, and will shortly... (more)

The Chief makes it's daily, albeit extremely brief, appearance in Oneida, Illinois on a beautiful August afternoon.

On a warm and sunny spring afternoon, an eastbound Z train thunders under the old Santa Fe searchlights headed for Chicago's Willow Springs Yard.

A westbound Q-CXOLAC7-19A rolls across the bridge in Ft. Madison, Iowa. It's not all that hard to imagine a quarted of EMD GP60M's leading these pigs across this very bridge just 25 years ago.

The Southwest chief hurries past the old BP Feeds elevator in the small town of Oneida, Illinois. The train is headed for it's next station stop of Galesburg, and points west.

It's "Golden Hour" in Appleton, Illinois, as this westbound empty coal train splits the former Santa Fe H5 searchlights at milepost 166.0. It is to be noted that the BN 9837 was the last... (more)

A southbound Canadian Pacific rail train headed up by a lone SD40-2 has come to a sudden halt in the curve at the city of Davenport's Riverfront Trail Park. The train resumed movement shortly ther... (more)

Three MRL SD45's charge eastward near Reed Point, Montana on a beautiful August morning.

With all five jacks burning, the white-hot Z-SBDWSP9-16P screams eastward along the BNSF Chillicothe Sub just outside Cameron, Illinois.