On a very windy spring afternoon, the oh so popular 476 job crawls west out of Sugar Grove after waiting for a stack train. Todays local features a Hudson Bay SD50, headed to the Illinois Railnet ... (more)
Still recovering from the blizzard that we had 3 days prior to this, the BNSF set out a Jordan Spreader to remove a majority of the snow away from the ROW.
After getting 17 inches of snow in the prairies, it makes great snow drifts on the tracks. The BNSF was shut down all night long and this was the first train that operated the line. This train pic... (more)