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In 1988 Illinois Central Gulf dropped the “Gulf” and began a concerted effort to repaint locomotives into what railfans dubbed the “Death Star” scheme. There wasn’t much else on the Mainline of Mid-America by the mid-90s. The new IC was sleek, efficient and profitable – just not as colorful.
The Cincinnati area has many places where fans gather to watch and photograph trains. One of the busiest and a local favorite is Hamilton.
For over one hundred years four separate railroads competed for passenger and freight traffic between the New York City metropolitan area and Chicago – the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Erie, and Baltimore and Ohio.
Head to the former Santa Fe, now BNSF, main line between Chicago and Los Angeles known as “The Transcon”. This is that line West of Galesburg.
Rochelle, 75 miles west of Chicago
CSX to St. Louis and Canadian National’s Chicago to Memphis main, once the main line of the Illinois Central, cross at grade at Effingham. See 24 hours of action.
All the action over 24 hours on one of the busiest segments of track on the whole Norfolk Southern system
24 hours at the busy St. Elmo diamond and the Conrail and Union Pacific’s parallel track there.
Ohio’s Attica Junction in 1996. 24 hours where NS and CSX bang the diamond.
In a state full of hot spots, Rochelle, Illinois is one of the busiest and best known. See 24 hours of action in the fall of 1993 at the railfan park here.
This video gives a look at the trains and operations on the mid-section of the Illinois Central in May of 1998.
Part 1 of the video brings you an in-depth look at Norfolk and Western’s big 4-8-4, Class J, #611
Visit the southern half of the Illinois Central Railroad as it existed in 1996 for an eye-opening tour of discovery. The secrets of the IC unfold as our travels take you from Fulton, Kentucky to New Orleans.
This program was filmed – 7/14/2001
Explore the exciting northern half of the Illinois Central Railroad from the Chicago area to Fulton, Kentucky. You’ll see locals, switch jobs, through-freights, and fast intermodal trains hard at work.
24 hours at Haley Tower in Terre Haute, Indiana – just three weeks before the Tower is closed forever.
This video shows twenty-four hours of action in October of 2018 on the Canadian National’s historic, former Illinois Central main between Chicago and Leverette, just North of Champaign.
The Budd RDC story from 1949 to the survivors today.
Until July, 1995, Burlington Northern and Union Pacific trains took turns using a diamond crossing where their lines intersect in Grand Island, Nebraska. Now, Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains climb up and over the UP triple-track main.
The biggest steam locomotives in the country traveled to Sacramento in June 1999 to attend the historic last Railfair of the 20th century. Pentrex captured it all and you can see it all with this 2 DVD Set. See up-close and on the main: UP 3985 and 844, SP Daylight, Santa Fe 3751, Union Pacific 4466, Yolo Shortline Steam, Southern Pacific 2467…and Shay races!
We’ll take you across the entire line from Guadalajara to the US border at Nogales. It’s an eleven hundred mile odyssey that examines the many faces of a truly extraordinary operation.
All four of the Clear Block Productions volumes on the Baltimore & Ohio – nearly 4 hours of classic B&O film – in one case. 4 DVDs: Part 1 “Steam & Diesel in Ohio & West Virginia”, Part 2 “Steam in West Virginia & Maryland”, Part 3 “Steam on Sand Patch” and Part 4 “A Time of Transition, 1950s to 1960s”.
In 1934, the Union Pacific Railroad introduced a revolutionary new passenger train by sending it on a whirlwind tour of the country, stopping at more than 65 cities and covering more than 12,000 miles en route. Black & white.
When Amtrak first rolled into Milwaukee, things had changed. Milwaukee Road’s Hiawatha and C&NW’s bi-level Streamliners were out, but Amtrak’s Empire Builder was in.
Beaumont Hill’s San Gorgonio Pass – the mountain gateway to the Sunset Route – has always been a tough proving ground for Southern Pacific’s locomotives.
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