P&E local moving west with GP7 5621 dressed in black and gray lightning strips and silver trucks with the P&E logo on the cab, at Champaign, Illinois on March 21, 1956. The Peoria & Eastern Rail... (more)
ALS 2205 leads UP MBNAS in Bloomington, IL as they are getting there train together before heading south to St. Louis
UP’s KD local heads back towards Belvedere with 5 cars from Cimco, as they street run on Madison Street past Mary’s Place in Rockford with two UP GP15-1’s, Y700 and Y644.
When you think of BN and/or Streator IL, you likely think 'big-time' railroading. You would not be wrong, but there was another side to Streator and the former CB&Q, as seen in this photo of Q's ... (more)
Crew has used control box to get signal to crossover C & I main to pull sand cars from the Mt. Morris branch. Local will run up the ill to serve sand plant west of Oregon.
IRs 104 job crawls over the Fox River inbetween Montgomery & Oswego, with a trio of SD40s.
HBR 5009 and another Hudson Bay SD50 leading the IR 105 job back North towards Peru where they would tie up for the day.
After Santa Fe took over Toledo, Peoria & Western, home road locomotives were disposed of or dispersed into the Santa Fe system. Initially, the AT&SF brought in a fleet of EMD GP39-2s to operate o... (more)
New paint is still a year away as ICE 4207 & 4206 show off their SP roots as they bring a freight thru Rockford, IL in May of 2004. ICE 4207 is ex-SP 7246 and is now Copper Basin 304.
The Illinois Railway runs along Fremont Street in Ottawa with a handful of cars from U.S. Silica.
UP GP60 1038 leads the KD local across the Rock River bridge in Rockford.
YBE51X heads through downtown Rockford after servicing returns Rock Valley Oil & Chemical at the far end of whats left of the old C&NW KD Line.
YBE51X returns from Rock Valley Oil & Chemical as its seen cutting the corner at the end of the street running on Madison Street.
A GE 65-Ton centercab is seen switching Behr Iron & Metal on the east side of Rockford.
MILW 853 and caboose are parked at Rochelle, IL along the BN mainline, east of the CNW diamonds. Milwaukee Road shared track with BN from Rockford to Rochelle, and operated south of Rochelle on a ... (more)
