Detroit-Kansas City train 181-22 pounds across the CN Champaign Sub at Tolono.

120-21's train departs Tolono, IL behind NS 7658.

Crude oil (diluted bitumen) loads for Maryland, LA depart the south siding switch at Tolono, IL on CN's Champaign Sub.

NS AC44C6M hustles 114 Triple Crown Roadrailers west for KC. This is the second last run of the TCSZ roadrailer trains before NS switches over to containers.

Heading into the setting sun at Dawn, Norfolk Southern Railway SD70M-2 2743 and SD90MAC 7311 haul a grain train splitting the signals at milepost 339.7 on the Lafayette District of the Illinois Di... (more)

Westbound freight crashes through the interlocking. Photo by Mike Dolenski.

On a cold, dark and somewhat snowy December evening, Norfolk Southern SD40-2 #6173 still wearing it's non horsehead paint scheme, leads Train D91 eastbound in the siding at Tolono, IL. preparing t... (more)

Canadian National Freight Train A407 heads northbound through a heavy burst of snow at Tolono, IL. with Illinois Central SD70 #1026 leading the way.

NS 120 sits stopped on the main awaiting the arrival of NS 122 from the East. Train 20T was also stopped behind NS 120 at the Tolono diamond.

On January 21, 1989, Illinois Central’s SCMI freight, operating from Chicago to Memphis, Tennessee, passes over the interlocking at Tolono, Illinois, where the IC main line crosses the Norfolk &... (more)

The RTC told A407 to pull up tight at Tolono in hopes they would fit so they can run 2 out of Champaign south to meet them. Well unfortunately the train is 1 car too long to fit in the 9,984' spac... (more)

NS SD40-2 1635, one of only ten high hoods remaining, speeds through Philo with the D91 local in tow.

Southern 4501 leads a 4th of July special through the Wabash/Illinois Central diamonds at Tolono, IL. Legend is that Tolono received its name from a 19th century IC land surveyor who described th... (more)

Going back to a time where NS Dash 8 locomotives still roamed and the Lafayette District was a hopping place....as now the NS is a shell of what it once was when it comes to motive power. Dash 8s,... (more)

With both the D91 and 181 holding at Tolono for a northbound CN train, they are now finally on the move and are seen just west of Tolono racing each other. The 181 quickly pulled away from the D91... (more)