With the loading of corn completed, the train is being prepared to depart FS Grain in Ransom.

The fall harvest is underway as a BNSF grain train is slowly wraps around the balloon track while being loaded at FS Grain in Ransom Illinois.

A five-pack of BNSF power is firing on all cylinders to get this high-priority train to points west. FS Grain, the main feature of Ransom, Illinois, towers over the scene.

L CHI105 highballs west through the small town of Ransom, passing the large grain elevator complex on a beautiful, summer evening. Leading the charge is a Cascade green SD40-2, #1706.

BNSF GP39E 2740, still wearing its Burlington Northern paint, leads the L-CHI105 westbound on the BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision ducking under the Ransom grain elevator.

Santa Fe’s 198 train, running from Chicago to Los Angeles, curves through Ransom, Illinois, in the very last sunlight of April 16, 1994.

Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief, powered by a pair of GE B32BWH locomotives in “Pepsi Can” colors, flies through Ransom, Illinois, on May 2, 1992. Deadheading to California is a Amfleet c... (more)

A pair of BNSF H1 SD40-2s lead Local 105 west through Ransom.

A former BN GP30 rebuild leads Local 105 west through Ransom.

Snow in April? Sure, why not! M CHIGAL heads west by the Ransom grain elevator with a quad of thundering EMD's, led by a Cascade green GP39-2.

BNSF 1464 leads L-CHI105 through the grain elevator in Ransom Illinois.

A Eastbound intermodal passes under a large grain elevator at Ransom, IL. The Ex Santa Fe Transcon sure doesn't disappoint, with lots of trains and great rural scenery.

Passing underneath the giant grain elevator in Ransom, IL is CSXT 856 and another CSXT GE locomotive in charge of a long intermodal train (BNSF Q CXOLAC1 15L). This train originated in at the inte... (more)

BNSF 1640 still in Santa Fe bluebonnet paint leads two former Santa Fe Warbonnets on M-CHIGAL through Ransom Illinois just shortly before midnight.

CN 2455 leads a vehicle train under the highway with a field of windmills in the background on a beautiful spring day.