A Pekin empty works back to the PRB on the BNSF Ottumwa Sub. The train passes this old elevator at Chillicothe in southern Iowa about 8 miles west of Ottumwa. The Des Moines River is in the backgr... (more)
As the sun sets in Chillicothe, Iowa BNSF SD70ACe 9073 brings up the rear of a loaded BNSF coal train as it heads east. This train is bound for Pekin, Illinois where it will be interchanged to the... (more)
The engineer on #6 is on his the last few miles of his trip from Lincoln to Ottumwa on board Amtrak's California Zephyr. Here he passes the small town of Chillicothe on the BNSF Ottumwa Sub less t... (more)
It's a busy evening on BNSF Ottumwa Subdivision at CP 288.8 in Chillicothe, Iowa as three trains meet. Empty distillers grain train X DHTEDY5 01A is cruising west behind BNSF 3827, and is only abo... (more)
A trio of standard cab EMD's lead BNSF's Galesburg to Des Moines manifest H GALDMO1 11A as it cruises west. As the train approaches Chillicothe, Iowa it meets loaded coal train C NAMPEK0 79A as i... (more)
Running outside its typical time, the only intermodal train across the Ottumwa Subdivision heads west through Chillicothe, Iowa and splits a pair of coal trains at CP 288.8. On the left, E CLOBTM0... (more)
Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr makes its evening run across the BNSF Ottumwa Sub, cruising through Chillicothe, Iowa a few miles past its last station stop in Ottumwa. Trailing 3rd is Siemen... (more)
Amtrak's California Zephyr speeds westbound through Chillicothe, Iowa as it passes by BNSF empty coal train E CLOBKM0 38A, sitting on the lead to the Ottumwa Generating Station. Once Amtrak was pa... (more)
Amtrak 118 leads the westbound California Zephyr through the low lying dust of a gravel road as the crew gives my camera some waves. Chillicothe, IA on the BNSF Ottumwa Subdivision.
BNSF 8118, KCS 4854, and KCS 4140 lead the H MCNGAL1 25 east between Chillicothe and Ottumwa, Iowa.
At sunset, Amtrak train No. passes ISU switch where a coal train has been recently unloaded at a nearby power plant.
A nearly new Oakway SD60 and a Cascade Green BN U30C back onto the ISU power plant siding to pick up a string of emprty hoppers to head west.
A "nameless" 70MAC leads a westbound coal empty past another waiting on the loop track at ISU.
Brand new ES44DC's are making their madien trip west on the BNSF. The pair is few miles west of Ottumwa as they past ISU Switch near Chillicothe. The track on the left is the lead for balloon trac... (more)
5 new SD70ACes on their maiden trip west from Chicago.
