A pair of Illinois Central SD70 DeathStars are sprinting south with CN Train A408 passing through Sigel Illinois on the former IC's Mainline of Mid-America. The train is passing a farm equipment dealer which by the looks of it does quite a bit of business with the surrounding farms. With harvest now over many of the implements have been returned from lease, waiting to be sold, or sold back to the dealer for a newer piece of equipment. And on the other side of the tracks as series of grain bins that provide a fairly standard Central Illinois back drop. Can't get much more Central Illinois than this.

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NS Train 168 is heading into the setting sun on Norfolk Southern's Southern West District at Bartelso Illinois on its way to St. Louis.

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The Kansas City Southern Business train is passing by one of the many soybean fields in extreme Southwest Missouri on its southbound run from Kansas City back to it's home base of Shreveport Louisiana. Running as CPKC train D40B-13 the classy looking train with it's Southern Belle painted EMD FP9s leading the way is southbound on CPKC's Pittsburg Subdivision at Burgess Missouri. The combination of the golden color of the soybeans nearing the time of harvest mixed with the color from the Southern Belle FP9s was a nice combination and one I hoped I could capture at some point on the chase this particular day.

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Led by a pair of Illinois Central SD70 Death Stars, Canadian National Train A408 sprints south passing through Neoga Illinois on the ex Illinois Central's Mainline of Mid-America. The train from will soon arrive at Effingham and work the yard in Effingham before continuing south toward the train's final destination of Centralia Illinois.

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NS Train 168 has just cleared the shared BNSF trackage through Centralia Illinois and is continuing its westward run on Norfolk Southern's Southern West District toward St. Louis.

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