The Voltz Yard in Kansas City, MO, to Oakwood Yard in Detroit, MI, Roadrailer blast under the old CNW St. louis line at Curran, about 10 miles west of Springfield. A lone BNSF unit works hard to k... (more)
A quartet on BNSF locomotives leads a loaded grain train from Lafayette, IN through the small and quiet town of Curran IL. The train will go to Kansas City to be interchanged with the BNSF.
Southern Serves central Illinois? The Southern heritage unit leads the Detroit-Kansas City, Mo., TripleCrown "RoadRailer" in the Sangamon County village of Curran, 10 miles west of t... (more)
One Hundred Years and Counting: This 100-year old 90 pound rail still in active use on the Old Curran Pass shows the longevity of railway capital investment. The poor condition of the rail... (more)
Brand new Herzog RLMW2000A power unit 195 basks in the sun on the Old Curran Pass as it and its dedicated trainset of six stack well cars and an RLMW B-CAB await their next work assignment on Norf... (more)
D37 rolls under the old C&NW bridge at Curran with 100 cars of extra Naples and Meredosia branch traffic picked up off the Pass in New Berlin.
NS D31 glides across the Illinois prairie west of Curran as the train returns to Springfield "engines light".
A Norfolk Southern Railway loaded auto train using a Union Pacific C40-8 rolls beneath the abandoned Chicago & North Western Railway ''SI'' (Southern Illinois) line at Curran, Illinois on its way ... (more)