I was driving from St. Louis to Chicago, in a persistent but light rain. It was November 4, 1986, where traveling north on I-55, I saw the only Illinois Central Gulf train I would actually ever se... (more)

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 se... (more)