IC 1009 with it’s busted number board and burnt out ditch light leads L585 South on the Gilman Sub with a healthy cut of cars from Incobrasa in Gilman.
Built by EMD in October 1995, Illinois Central SD70 1009 was delivered in the IC's black "Death Star" paint scheme. When Canadian National Railway purchased the IC in 1998, the roster b... (more)
Canadian National Freight Train M301 heads North through Swan Lake, MS. With IC SD70 #1009 in CN Paint leading CN SD60 #5429, CN C40-9W #2550, CITX SD70M-2 #142 & a CN SD75I
Portland & Western 663 meets empty CN Oil. CN has been running weekly oil trains to Willbridge Yard with all CN power. An article in NPR suggests that the strategy of shipping out of Portland and ... (more)
The last thing I expected to see on my drive to Ohio for my summer job was a true Illinois Central train on its namesake mainline. Somehow though, it happened, and I took advantage of it by chasin... (more)
With thin, whispy clouds painted onto a deep blue sky, Canadian National auto train M371 flies down the Illinois Central with an appropriate engine doing the honors. Mix all of this with the mural... (more)
Death star leading CN 121. With an Illinois Central unit leading, CN 121 heads west through Montreal West, foregoing its setoff for CN 149, which has become rarer as CN 149 usually does not... (more)