BRC 572, freshly obtained from LLPX, gets to work.

CN local based out of Centralia, IL is approaching the gate to the Prairie State Energy Campus with empty hoppers to be loaded with fly ash, which is the reside left after burning coal.

UP 7381 is pouring it on as it passes through the crossovers at Val, near Valmeyer, Illinois. This is the UP Chester Sub.

One of the two newly reactivated SD38s owned by the Iowa Interstate, drags 70 cars out of the Illinois River Valley bound for Silvis from Peoria.

After years of being go-to motive power for the Iowa Interstate, their SD38 fleet has been banished to storage lines and sheds for quite sometime. Similar to 2022, two of their four SD38s were pul... (more)

After interchanging loaded hoppers of limestone with the Kaskaskia Regional Port Authority at Lenzburg, a pair of "Death Stars" returns to the Prairie State Energy Campus (a clean coal g... (more)

A pair of "Death Stars" climbs the grade from Mud Creek after working the Prairie State Energy Campus (a clean coal generating station) near Lively Grove, IL.

You Can't Outrun 'Em
I was reminded today that trains on the UP Chester Sub roll along at near 60 mph and can easily outrun you if you need to get into position for a shot. Here a south... (more)

St. Louis Southwestern, SSW GP40M-2 7290 leads a eastbound stack train at, Meriden, Illinois. June 14, 1993. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © History on the SSW 7290 Built as a GP40 WRA 707> SBD 6795> CSX... (more)

Early Sunday morning finds a few leaser's hanging around the Trra Madison Yard.

A UP GP40-2 leads a road freight into G3 for a setoff and pickup before continuing east.

IC, Illinois Central SD40-2 6002-GM&O GP30 510, northbound and about to duck under I-57, at Tonti, Illinois. September 5, 1980. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo I was heading south on I57 with the 18 ... (more)

NS 4322 and UP 7761 wait for a green signal before heading underneath the Missouri Avenue overpass with a northbound manifest train. To the right of this location is the Metro East Industries dies... (more)

UP SD60 2182 switches out the South end of Global 4 in Joliet.

HLX 3805 is nestled between UP 635 and UP 637, RVSC 513 (Rio Valley Switching Company) and NCRC 549 (Rio Grande Pacific Industries Rail Service), at the Metro East Industries in East St. Louis, Il... (more)