A 61-car Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Blue Train on Rail America's Toledo, Peoria & Western rolls slowly across Farmdale trestle and the Norfolk Southern's Peoria District at East Peo... (more)
A little foreground clutter? The Kolbe Job heads towards Collier Yards in Bartonville. I ended up with one of the Yukon's new tires throwing a belt. What a swell time it was changing a tire at Dar... (more)
1967 looked like this in hundreds of towns all around the country. But this is 2009 and many of these scenes are gone forever. Thanks to the shortlines for keeping these vintage units alive. This ... (more)
An eastbound TP&W departs the East Peoria yards crossing the NS at Farmdale. No true TP&W power in this consist.
TP&W 2058 dead and drained at Logansport.
TP&W tunnel motors round the corner with yet more loads of corn for ADM. A rubber mixing plant is off to the left in this heavily industrialized setting.
As a teenager visiting my grandparents during the summer, I would always be listening for a distant horn. If I rode my bike fast enough for about 6 or 7 blocks, I would sometimes be lucky enough t... (more)
Having just crossed the Norfolk and Western diamond, this trio of motive power is accelerating eastbound out of Forrest.
The TP&W delivers grain loads to ADM. These tunnel motors are finishing their useful lives in service hauling midwestern grain, a little different from their original intent.
A three unit lashup waits out the night at the E. Peoria engine terminal. Flashblub lighting.
An empty Indiana Southern IPL coal train sits dead south of Worthington.
TP&W's Galesburg Job is doubling their train into the TZPR yards. Let's just hope this front-end load was chained down fairly well.
It may say Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway but to me it says RailAmerica.
IORY 1501 and 1500 are working a Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway train, taking 27 empty grain cars back to the East Peoria yards after being unloaded at one of the Archer Daniels Midland ethanol ... (more)
How about this setting for a GP30?
