A repainted GTW GP38-2 leads CN L508 north up Byron Hill.

GTW 5857 does its best Alco impression as it thunders up Byron hill with the Quad Graphics local.

GTW 5857 rests quietly while CN 3060 shoves on the rear of a SB ethanol train.

The first snow of the season in Minnesota. Hope everyone has their Spam, Pop Tarts and canned crab meat because this should only last about five months or so. What once was called the Virginia L... (more)

This Ex Rock Island GP38-2 waits for an assignment by the West Tower in Battle Creek.

After contractors worked all night to dig this train out, the CN is now working on getting this train out of here. The head 3 units were brought out to assist the 4 that are packed in here and now... (more)

With freezing mist in the air, it is business as normal yet for the CN today. Here L577, Arthur Turn, rolls west thru Knierim with 43 empties for Hawkeye Renewable Energy in Arthur. Iowa is bracin... (more)

With the local to Sioux City on the left, and the local to Arthur on the right, both crews are wating on paperwork at Ft Dodge before heading out to put their trains together. SD40's have returned... (more)

Grand Trunk 5857 lead the Clinton to Gilman Local under a farmers wooden bridge, two miles South of Clinton. The crew made a light unit run to Mt. Pulaski to grab the plow from the Farmersville co... (more)

Grand Trunk 5857 and a mate get the signal at MI, Mt. Pulaski, as they begin to head back north to Clinton, Illinois to pick up there train. The previous days Farmersville Coal loads sits in the c... (more)

A pair of GTW geeps still with their white frame stripes leads the local through the open fields of central IL.

A trio of GTW GP38-2s shuffles cars in Gilman.

This Gilman local on the Illinois Central mainline features 3 GTW GP38-2s.

southbound on the former IC (now CN), crossing the former Pennsy (now CSX). Kodak Royal Gold 200, Olympus OM-10, Vivitar 80-200mm f3.9.