Freight Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL circles around a farmer dumping soybeans from his combine on a beautiful October morning.
Freight Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL heads uphill past HillTop on its way east out of Waterloo.
Two different WC paint schemes at Wallace Yard, on a blustry day.
IC 2715 is the lead unit on M338, and GTW 4929, the FURBALL (Freeport-Rockford Switcher) power sits silently. The M338 engineer is going toward the yard office to get some paper work.
BLE 909 is on very foreign land. Also, this was a pretty bright lashup.
Regular Merchandise Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL. (Canon EOS20D, 16-35mm f/2.8L USM)
Regular Merchandise Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL climbs the hill towards Scales Mound, IL. (Canon EOS20D, 16-35mm f/2.8L USM)
GTW 5949 is on the point of CN train M33891-28, on April 28th, 2006. The cars toward the end of the train (left side of photo) are curving down toward West Jct.
M-338 having only 40 cars has no trouble getting up to speed
Regular Merchandise Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL. (Canon EOS20D, 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM)
Regular Merchandise Train from Waterloo, IA - Chicago, IL. (Canon EOS20D, 300mm f/4.0L IS USM)
Yard switch crew helps M-338 with pickup
CN's daily eastbound manifest crosses into Illinois and is about to hit the BNSF diamonds and enter the tunnel before joining the BNSF mainline for the trip to Galena Jct and beyond.