Illinois Railnet & Illinois Railway

Ottawa to Streator and La Salle to Zearing Branches See the Illinois Railnet’s Ottawa to Streator Branch. Our cameras followed the Railnet over a few days a little over 15 miles to Streator. We start at Ottawa on 4-25-05 and follow the RailNet to Streator and back to Ottawa. Pulled by the NKCR #2 ex-CNW GP-7, and the CSP #4 ex-Southern B-23-7.

Also on the Ottawa – Streator Branch we see the #2 try to push a tree blocking the tracks. We also follow the RailNet back to Ottawa during a Thunderstorm. Illinois Railway is leasing the Hudson Bay’s SD-50s numbers 5008 & 5009. We follow the 5009 on the Ottawa to Streator branch. Filmed on 3/3/09 & 3/10/09

On May 3 & 4 2005 we followed the NKCR #3 and IR #5 – both are ex-Santa Fe CF-7’s. Both engines ran from La Salle to Zearing to interchange with the Norfolk Southern. We then caught up with #1 and #2 for 3 shots of the road job from Ottawa to Eola on May 8, 2005 – Program says #3 But is engine #2. We also see a few BNSF trains as the RailNet waits.