Author: Matthew Schimmel
This album will cover my second day to Galesburg, Illinois for Galesburg Railroad Days 2014. Mostly photos from the Chillicothe Sub. and the yard itself. Hope everyone likes the photos. Thanks for checking them out.
Sitting in the diesel facility.
Sitting in the diesel facility.
Sitting in the diesel facility.
Sitting in the diesel facility.
This 9 unit consist...yes 9....heads for the BNSF Galesburg Diesel Facility. This was quite a site to see backing into the pit. Locomotives: NREX 5962, BNSF 6178, NS 8351, CP 9784, BNSF 1976, BNSF 879 (front 6) The hidden 3: BNSF 7098, BNSF 2184, & NS 9600.
Headed for the diesel facility in Galesburg.
NREX 5962
Headed for the diesel facility in Galesburg.
Headed for the diesel facility in Galesburg.
Headed for the diesel facility in Galesburg.
BNSF 879
Headed for the diesel facility in Galesburg.
Headed for the diesel facility in Galesburg.
Headed for the diesel facility in Galesburg.
Sitting in the diesel facility.
Sitting in the diesel facility.
CEFX 136 - Sitting in the Galesburg diesel facility.
BNSF 678 & BNSF 4921 - BNSF 509 & BNSF 559
Sitting in the diesel facility.
DPU on an out bound oil can.
BNSF 9252 leads this empty coal train as they work their way to a fuel truck and crew change on the staging tracks in the Galesburg Yard.
Empty coal hopper. - First photo of this coal gon in rrpicturearchives.net.
BNSF 6419 leads this loaded coal train and waits for a crew just off the crossing at S. Henderson St. in Galesburg.
BNSF 4759 leads a warbonnet dash 9 and a cream n green Mac as they rumble past Peck Park in Galesburg, Illinois.
BNSF 657
BNSF 7025 leads this east bound stacker as they roar past Peck Park on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub.
5th unit on an east bound stack as a little kid watches the train roar past Peck Park.
BNSF 5446 leads this freight north past Peck Park on the BNSF Barstow Sub.
CEFX 6003
BNSF 7605 leads this stacker past Peck Park in Galesburg, Illinois on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub.
BNSF 9049 leads this Detroit Edison coal load on the BNSF Barstow Sub. as it passes Peck Park.
Roster shot.
AMTK 192 & AMTK 48 lead Amtraks #3 past Peck Park in Galesburg, Illinois.
NS 8425 & NS 8766 lead the NYC-LAC west past Peck Park on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub. as a kid waves to the crew.
BNSF 5918 crosses over the Chillicothe Sub. as it heads south with a loaded ore train on the BNSF Barstow Sub.
BNSF 4130 leads this Z train past Peck Park on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub.
BNSF 8263 - First photo of this C4 on rrpicturearchives.net.
BNSF 6536 & BNSF 6853 are the lead 2 units on this east bound stack as it passes Peck Park in Galesburg, Illinois on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub.
There that kid again waving....I left this spot after this photo, couldnt take it anymore.