A DM&E and CP GP go on duty as local CP B67 in Savanna, Illinois and head towards the yard to build their train before crossing the Mississippi and heading towards Clinton.

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A BNSF frac sand train hustles through the yard in Savanna, Illinois. This yard is mostly empty except for a few cranes for MOW service. A hi-rail truck makes its way up the other main track in th... (more)

A DM&E and CP GP idle in the morning sun waiting for the local crew while a BNSF freight passes by over the diamond in the background.

Locomotives:
DME 4005 GP40
CP 3002 GP38AC

At dusk on a night after a soaking rain shrouded the Upper Mississippi River at Savanna, IL, a heavy coal train makes it way east on the drenched Aurora Sub.

On the double track west of Savanna, IL, BNSF 4127 West meets a Z train bound for Chicago. To the right are the Mississippi Palisades.

Riverport Railroad switcher heading back to the engine shop after pushing a cut of cars to the sho.

BNSF 784 leads a freight along Hwy 84 and the Mississippi River near Savanna, IL in December of 1997. This view is from the overlook in Palisades State Park.

A BNSF Z train makes it way westward between the Mississippi River and the Palisades just north of Savanna, IL. CN has trackage rights on this portion of the Aurora Sub.

BNSF SD70ACe 8564, pulls a manifest up river.

An empty BNSF iron ore train heads back to Minnesota for another load of taconite. Directly in front of us is the Mississippi, covered in snow and ice.

A couple CP 40s coupled to an eastbound DM&E manifest await a new crew.

Eastbound empty biz train heads through Plum River on it's way to Chicago.

BNSF 6372 West meets a stack train at the east end of Savanna, IL.

Sequentially numbered Milwaukee Road GP30s 1002 and 1003 sun themselves at Savanna, IL between runs on a snowless early January day in 1976. Unusual for their Alco trucks, the GP30s were in the ec... (more)

MILW FM H-16-44 434 looks to be in good shape at Savanna, IL in January 1976, but most likely never turned another wheel in revenue service as it was retired in February 1976. Milwaukee was a larg... (more)