2010 NS in Illinois
Author: Doug Wolfe
Shots of Norfolk Southern in Illinois during 2010.
Photo Gallery
Eastbound Train #240.
Backing cars into the yard on the old Wabash Railroad bridge over a snow & ice covered Lake Decatur.
Grain train approaching Rock Springs Road.
WB auto rack train. #293.
Switching operations.
Auto parts train 145 at Franklin Street approaching N. Water Street.
NS power working near the massive ADM grain complex.
Holding on a signal near the Wabash Depot.
Hauling empties passing Millikin University.
Shoving cars back to the yard passing the old Wabash Railroad coal tower.
Kicking up some snow while merging from double to single track at BD Junction.
Light power heads east to the yard.
Train #301 running south at the elevators in Blue Mound south of Decatur.
NS 8944 & UP 8601 take a mixed freight west across the WABIC diamonds.
Ex CR 6450 has just interchanged cars with CSX and now waits for permission to return to the NS yard.
D37 running engine light. It has just passed the old Walrus Manufacturing plant which produced soda fountains.
Northbound at sunset on the last day of March.
Triple Crown 255 begins its slow roll west out of Decatur.
Auto parts train 145 heads west through Decatur in Central Illinois.
145 runs west past the Butternut bread plant.
Crew of NS 398 gives a friendly wave.
Spring planting gets underway soon as a mixed freight runs through rural Macon County south of Decatur.
Three Dash 9's race south with an intermodal train through rural Stonington passing Ponting Field.
After waiting on a northbound train a southbound stack train crawls past the signals at Rock Springs Road.
A fresh crew sprints 21T through rural Macon County.
Sunday evening move of tank cars from ADM to the yard off of Garfield Avenue.
"Staley job" running up the main after moving cars at the Tate & Lyle / Staley plant.
Late morning mixed freight.
NS 301 runs past the campus of Millikin University on its way to meet NS 240 at BD Junction.
It's sunset as NS 181 charges past the signals at BD Junction.
NS freight bolts across the Illinois prairie at sunset.
Intermodal 20T at Wood Street.
21T passing the signals at Mosser.
Track switching operations near the WABIC diamonds.
Eastbound mixed freight catches one of the days rare moments of sunshine.
Triple Crown roadrailer advances past the Wabash Depot.
Corn starts to pop up in Illinois corn fields as a southbound heads through rural Macon County.
NS 255
NS 255 approaching the signals at Mosser.
Ford auto parts train passing the signals in Harristown. NS 145.
Westbound at the WABIC diamonds.
The trees kept getting in the way of my shot. Problem solved.
NS 145 - Ford auto parts train.
Power waits on a signal to return to the yard. Later these locomotives will take out 33J.
Roadrailer 255 flying past a recently planted soybean field.
NS 3524 & 5608 tied down with a track geometry train for the night across from the old Wabash Railroad station.
Roadrailer NS 255.
D6Z rolls to a stop near the Stonington elevators.
NS 181 runs through Illinois corn country between Decatur and Taylorville.