'He leadeth me beside the still waters'… part II. The last time I was at this overlook at Mississippi Palisades State Park last October, I captured a beautiful scene ( http://www.railpictures.n... (more)
A BNSF westbound manifest (compass northbound along the Mississippi River) passes beneath the bluffs of Mississippi Palisades State Park as the setting sun lights up the limestone cliffs.
This work train just finished its job of dumping riprap with side dump gondolas and then smothing the rock out with a spreader that is on the other end of the train. Some of the fresh rock can be... (more)
A BNSF work train was dumping riprap along the bank of the Mississippi River with side dump gondolas, which I had never seen in action before. The train consisted of a green and white GP50L 3162,... (more)
Ex MILW on a EX MILW line crossing the BNSF 's Aurora SUB
Before acquiring the WC, the CN utilized the BN to get to Chicago off the DWP.
A warm spring morning sees this classic Santa Fe warbonnet leading an intermodal train along a muddy Mississippi River.
Granite City, IL-bound ore is south along the Mississippi River at Savanna, IL behind a set of BN SD60Ms and an SD40-2 and below the cliffs of the Mississippi Palisades State Park.
A derailment in Wisconsin forced this C&NW St. Paul to Chicago freight to detour on the BN"s "C&I" line.
Westbound departing Savanna for Kansas City.
A pair of NS GEs pull away from the yard office in Savanna with a westbound freight.
An eastbound BNSF stack train crosses the ICE diamonds in Savanna.
'He leadeth me beside the still waters' ... These words from the 23rd Psalm are what I think of when I see this view from the Mississippi Palisades at sunset. It was a beautiful, very quiet eveni... (more)
