Upon my arrival into Gibson City this morning, I happen to see the crossing lights flashing…there goes 7549 northbound for what I had assumed another cut for the ethanol plant to the west of tow... (more)
Bloomer GP10 7504 sits in Gibson City on a quiet fall night.
A solo Bloomer GP10 is leading a train of potash hoppers seen here arriving in Gibson City.
A Bloomer southbound cruises through the farmland surrounding the old Wabash main.
A solo Bloomer geep brings a potash train through the small town of Strawn, Illinois headed south toward Gibson City.
Bloomer Line Railroad (BLOL) GP10 #7561 pulls an empty hopper Train west passed MP 224 just east of Anchor, Illinois returning from Colfax on an overcast afternoon.
Bloomer Line Railroad (BLOL) GP10 #7591 is on the rear of an empty hopper Train heading west through the corn fields passed MP 224 just east of Anchor, Illinois returning from Colfax on an overcas... (more)
Bloomer Line Railroad (BLOL) GP10 #7561 pulls an empty hopper Train west through Anchor, Illinois returning from Colfax on an overcast afternoon.
BLOM 7561 burst through the plow lines in Sibley, IL on Wabash's former Chicago line
Wearing its Burlington Route-inspired color scheme, Bloomer EMD GP9 No. 91 waits to go to work at Gibson City, Illinois, on April 24, 1993. This short line was formed in 1985, originally operating... (more)
The Bloomer lugs 20 fertilizer loads North through Sibley.
BLOL 7561 leads two LTEX GPs and 20 fertilizer loads towards Sibley.
On a extremely hot and humid summer morning in Central Illinois, BLOL 7504, a Paducah GP10 switches around storage cars on the main, 1,000 or so feet away from Risk Junction.
The Bloomer Line rumbles south through the dense fog at Sibley with loaded grain to interchange with the CN at Gibson City.
The Bloomer Line is seen heading south along Route 47 between Strawn and Sibley.