BNSF ET44C4 3904 sits on display in the blistering heat for Galesburg Railroad Days.

The Christmas decorations and dimmed headlight glisten in the night after Santa's sleigh was tied down for the layover in Smithfield, Illinois.

Thanks to my friend and his personal connections, we were both able to gain access to the cab of Elkhart Grain's GP7U number 1317 as it lays dormant between shifts. The interior of this veteran Ge... (more)

A late Amtrak 313 "River Runner" rounds the curve into the Kirkwood, Missouri Amtrak station, which is of MoPac heritage.

Added to the train in Albuquerque, New Mexico, BNSF 1759 makes all of the track speed as it hauls through Dallas City, Illinois.

Amtrak 42 leads the southbound Texas Eagle under temporary and inconvenient cloud cover as it passes one of the hundreds of sprouting corn fields along its route.

N&W 611 passes a vintage set of CPL signals mounted on a bracket. These signals are still in service from their original N&W days, and should be for the near future as there are no replacements in... (more)

Amtrak's first southbound Lincoln Service train of the day, 301 eases by on the NS Pass preparing for a stop at Hazel Dell to wait on NS 33J.

Amtrak 303 departs the station in downtown Springfield at an unimpressive 2 hours and 10 minutes late.

After checking out the old GM&O Tri-Light signals slated for replacement in Auburn, I remembered that the Texas Eagle was a thing. So I raced home, grabbed my camera and frantically settled on the... (more)

With 301 stopped at Hazel Dell on NS Pass and 22 still waiting here at Iles, NS 33J with two pumpkins on the point breezes by with it's headlights completely out.

In the perfect evening light, BNSF and UP coal trains rest in the Illinois & Midland's Powerton Yard. Locomotives include a dirty UP AC4400CW, an H2 ES44AC, and a freshly painted H3 SD70MAC.

UP MBNAS-09 breezes through the small town of Williamsville, Illinois after a meet with the northbound 304 at Elkhart.

After lengthy work in the yard back in Bluefield, 18M with an aging SD70M glides downhill in attempt to pick up speed.

A trio of lost UP widecabs heads up NS 196 through the hamlet of Ada, West Virginia nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains.