Quintessential Santa Fe
Santa Fe’s 198 train barrels through Toluca, Illinois, at 6:05 p.m. on May 11, 1991. The scene is classic Santa Fe—piggyback flying over double track high ir... (more)

A Santa Fe freight cruises eastbound through Toluca, Illinois, powered by EMD GP20 No. 3032, along with a GP7u and another GP20, on April 16, 1994.

At 9:54 a.m. on April 16, 1994, an eastbound Santa Fe freight rolls through Toluca, Illinois, led by venerable ATSF EMD GP20 No. 3032. Even near the end of its existence, Santa Fe could deliver a ... (more)

At 7:31 a.m. on May 15, 1993, an eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train speeds through Toluca, Illinois, led by Super Fleet GE B40-8W No. 517.

UP ZCIG4 heads eastbound out of Toluca through the open Illinois farmland with UP 1995, the Chicago & North Western heritage unit leading the way as they begin to get close to their terminating p... (more)

Tearing through small town Illinois
At 11:45 a.m. on August 24, 1991, Santa Fe’s QNYLA sprints through Toluca, Illinois, in a view from an old coal mine slag dump nicknamed “Jumbo”... (more)

BNSF 4218 leads a intermodal under the since-removed Santa Fe searchlights in Toluca.

Santa Fe’s 179 train sprints through Illinois farmland and flies through the town of Toluca on April 22, 1995. Three GE C40-8Ws along with a GE C44-9W pull the intermodal seen in an elevated vie... (more)

BNSF's Streator Turn, the weekend incarnation of the LCHI101 road freight, heads west through Toluca in arguably better days. The "super pool" has done away with the seniority based crew... (more)

An SP trackage rights train races a westbound freight through Toluca, IL on BNSF's former Santa Fe mainline en route to Kansas City. At this point, SP was already in the UP camp, with many changes... (more)

Westbound local 101 blast under the classic ex-Santa Fe cantilever signal located at Toluca. The BNSF's signal gangs have been working east out of Galesburg replacing this section of old signals f... (more)

With power that would typically be found on the Q FTMNSA, NS 8117 leads the charge eastbound with a long stack train in tow. This train originated at the yard in Ft. Madison, IA and will interchan... (more)

Under the ATSF era signals, a BNSF stacker heads West in to the afternoon light

An eastbound stack train from Fort Madison to Logistics Park passes under the signal bridges at Toluca.

Westbound auto racks pass under the endangered Santa Fe searchlights at Toluca on a sunny evening along the Chillicothe Sub.