With a hearty turn to the right, Creston Road is going the same place as this eastbound Chicago & North Western freight train. In about two thousand feet, both will be traversing through the town ... (more)
Led by Chicago & North Western EMD SD50 No. 7020 and Union Pacific GE C40-8 No. 9201, an eastbound grain train works past a field of summer flowers between Rochelle and Creston, Illinois, on Augus... (more)
Chicago and North Western SD40-2 No. 6878 leads an eastbound freight through Creston, Illinois, at 9:20 a.m. on the nice spring day of March 25, 1995. While No. 6878 is in its original scheme, tra... (more)
At dusk on a warm summer evening, lightning bugs, or fire flies, begin to rise from an Illinois corn field as a Union Pacific freight train rolls by in the distance.
An Eastbound stack train crests the hump in....Creston just before the sun sets. The engineer's silhouette can be clearly seen as well as the heat exhaust blurring part of the grain elevato... (more)
A WB domestic stack train rolls around the curve as it starts to whistle for the town's crossings. A Farmer's field waits to be turned on the right, grain trailers on the left and the containers ... (more)
EB coal train passes the fields of rural northern Illinois on a heavy grade. Who says northern Illinois is ALL flat? cab windows on the DPU unit is visible at the end of the train.