The CNIC's Farmersville coal empties head for the Crown III mine at Farmersville, Illinois, southbound past the depot the city of Divernon has restored as a local museum. Engineer JD Wright has seventy empties in tow, little does he know that when the train finishes flood loading central Illinois coal, a CN track crew will prevent the return trip north due to tearing out a crossing in downtown Springfield, Illinois. Photo on Monday Sept 13, 2010.
Local Springfield railfan Jimmie Dubois was also photographing the train.
STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO
