Amtrak's southbound Illini is leaving the station in Effingham, Illinois, as the last light of day casts a pinkish glow on a few clouds. The last car on the train is a dining car, but is used only to meed a host railroad-mandated minimum axle count.
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Amtrak's southbound Illini is leaving the station in Effingham, Illinois, as the last light of day casts a pinkish glow on a few clouds. The last car on the train is a dining car, but is used only to meed a host railroad-mandated minimum axle count.
As an Amtrak conductor in the foreground leans on a railing of a fence, his counterpart helped passengers disembark from the southbound Illini in Effingham, Illinois. No. 393 is bound for Carbondale, Illinois.
A lone passenger waits to board Amtrak's southbound Illini in Effingham, Illinois. She is waiting for other passengers to disembark.
I had disemabarked from Amtrak's southbound Illini in Effingham, Illinois. I walked to my car and was getting ready to leave when I heard a locomotive horn. It belonged to an eastbound CSX manifest freight which had gotten the signal to cross the CN Champaign Subdivision after Amtrak No. 393 had cleared the diamond. The CSX train was moving slowly and I was able to get ahead of it on a parallel National Avenue. I made this image with my phone. Note the last rays of daylight on the western horizon in the distance.
On the point is SD40-3 No. 4033, which was built as an SD40-2 for the Louisville & Nashville in November 1979.
There is quite a history behind CSX SD40-3 No. 4384, which is shown trailing in the motive power consist of an eastbound manifest train in Effingham, Illinois, on the St. Louis line. It was built in February 1966 as SD40 No. 6041 for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
It later worked for Penn Central and Conrail with its PRR roster number before Conrail made it No. 6294. It later joined the CSX motive power roster where it was renumbered 8883 and converted to an SD40-2.
It was ultimately rebuilt into an SD40-2 and became the Clinchfield sticker unit. I'm not sure if part of that rebuilding it was given a streamlined nose. It featured for a time the name "Clinchfield" on the nose.
Working on the St. Louis Line is a homecoming of sorts for the 4384. This track was one the PRR route to St. Louis.
An Amtrak conductor lowers the metal plate that covers the steps in the vestibule of a Horizon Fleet coach. The image was made in Efingham, Illinois, and the train is the northbound Saluki.
An Amtrak conductor closes the lower half of the vestibule door of a Horizon Fleet coach. The image was made in Efingham, Illinois, and the train is the northbound Saluki.
The conductor of the northbound Saluki stands on the stepbox as it puts passenger luggage aboard the train. No. 390 will be leaving momentarily to continue its journey to Chicago.
A westbound CSX container train passes the depot that used to be used by the Pennsylvania and Illinois Central railroads in Effingham, Illinois. The stack train is on former Pennsy rails.
This used to be the Pennsylvania Railroad route to St. Louis. Today is is the CSX St. Louis Line. Image made in Effingham, Illinois.
This used to be the Pennsylvania Railroad route to St. Louis. Today is is the CSX St. Louis Line. Image made in Effingham, Illinois.
The view is looking southward down the CN Champaign Subdivision of a westbound CSX stack train in Effingham, Illinois.
The southbound Saluki from Chicago is arriving at the Effingham, Illinois, station. It's hard to believe that when I posted this image it had been more than a decade since I made it.
Amtrak P42DC No. 31 and an Amfleet food service car rattle the diamonds in Effingham, Illinois, of the CSX St. Louis Line. This is Train No. 391 en route to Carbondale, Illinois.
Shown is the southbound Saluki gaining speed as it departs Effingham, Illinois, on the CN Champaign Subdivision.
Amtrak's southbound Saluki departs from Effingham, Illinois, crossing the CSX St. Louis Line in the process.
With its station work complete at Effingham, Illinois, Amtrak's southbound Saluki leaves town for its next station stop in Centralia. The tracks in the foreground are part of the CSX St. Louis Line.
Amtrak Train 391 is working the station in Effingham, Illinois. The heart-shaped structure in the foreground used to be a flower bed.
Amtrak's Saluki bound for Carbondale, Illinois, makes its daily station stop in Effingham on the former Illinois Central mainline. Portions of the former IC boarding platform remain in place.
Passengers disembark from the southbound Saluki at Effingham, Illinois. Other passengers are boarding to go south, probably to Carbondale, Illinois.