With only 12 minutes to sunset, a pair of EMD's leads #473, freight from Bensenville, IL to Nahant, IA. The leader is an ex MILW SD40-2 (206) and is 41 years old. My understanding is most of the... (more)
CP's southbound 474 holds the mainline at Le Claire with a pair of DME SD40-2s and the last SOO SD60M while BNSF's northbound Clinton job takes the siding with a pair of ex-ATSF B40-8W's.
Westbound ethanol empties sprint through the soybean fields on the outskirts of Defiance, OH on a splendid late summer afternoon. DME SD40-2 6090 teams up with an NS dash-9 as the train approaches... (more)