On Saturday, September 13th, 2014, the Iowa Interstate Railroad made four round trips between Henry, IL and Chillicothe, IL running a special 8-car passenger excursion for the families, railfans a... (more)

The IAIS excursion heads north into Henry with a sharp SD38-2 bringing up the rear.

The passenger excursion passes through Sparland.

The Iowa Interstate excursion passes by the nicely restored Rock Island depot in Chillicothe.

With an SD38-2 on each end, the eight car excursion is headed back north to Henry.

At the west end of Neff Yard in KC, MO, light BNSF power rolls west past a UP yard job, led by the UPY #844. Regardless of the paint job, I love the look of the GP30 carbody, and BNSF's H3 paint... (more)

Bessemer 878 switches out the south yard in Joliet.

After switching the back lot at Charter Steel conductor Scott rides back to finish the rest of the work at Charter.

Bessemer 878 and EJ&E 703 are among the variety of units sitting at the south yard in Joliet.

Another shade of orange that CN owns

A Selkirk hump set heads WB to the receiving yard to get another train at the increasingly busy Selkirk hump. On the right are new yard tracks being constructed by CSX to deal with the traffic bo... (more)

Bessemer SD38-2 878 rests at the south yard in Joliet.

A land of EMDs - Missabe 215 and 211 work the yard while a number of road sets can be seen on the left waiting to take ore trains north.

IAIS SD38-2 155 heads light eastbound past 80th Avenue after dropping off some rock cars at Ozinga.

Bessemer & Lake Erie SD38-2 878 leads a transfer to Kirk yard east down the old J in Dyer. Pretty neat seeing a unit from another transtar railroad leading on the J!