The KCS Roodhouse local serving Pactiv Corp in downtown Jacksonville as the rain falls at a steady pace. The engineer was quite cranky this day and was complaining about us over the radio to his c... (more)

LRH101 from Roodhouse arriving in Jacksonville to switch out Pactiv Corp.

At Jacksonville, there is this cool depot was built by the Chicago and Alton back in the days. Jacksonville was on the C&A's old Kansas City to Chicago mainline. The C&A's tracks went to the east ... (more)

CPKC grain train being loaded at Bartlett Grain in Jacksonville Illinois.

A birds eye view of a CPKC grain train wrapping around Bartlett Grain in Jacksonville being slowly loaded while someone gets a talking to from the Illinois State Police down below.

A KCS grain train is seen strung out on the Bartlett Elevator loop along I72 on the south side of Jacksonville, IL.

Orange and gray Illinois Central Gulf EMD GP11 No. 8733 switches a sizable plastics manufacturing plant on the southeast side of Jacksonville, Illinois, in September 1984.

With over a mile of roadrailers behind a solo leader, NS 255 heads south for Kansas City.

Quickly approaching the diamond with the NS Springfield-Hannibal district, the CEIGAL waste no time with nothing but greens ahead. This train was the only train on the line from Centralia all the ... (more)

Running errands in Springfield, I saw this westbound stuck by a train on the ICG at Starnes Tower. When I got back to Jacksonville, I knew - thanks to the fast running on the former Wabash line -... (more)

Pulling a couple of interchange cars around the wye from the N&W, the BN local passes the dilapidated remains of what was probably once a good rail customer. ICG's ex-GM&O/Alton Jack Line also cr... (more)

The NS OCS is eastbound on the Springfield-Hannibal District approaching Jacksonville after departing Moberly, MO earlier in the morning.

Under a bright blue morning sky, BNSF 6140 and a very clean 9076 shove on the back of an empty coal train at Jacksonville, IL.

SD40-2 3316 is silhouetted against a magnificent sunset as D31 speeds back east toward Springfield.

When I headed west to Jacksonville this afternoon it was to get past the thunderstorms and back into the sun. Imagine my surprise when the first train to show up on the BNSF was this Amtrak "Speci... (more)