The Illinois-Iowa Railfan

I stayed in princeville instead of Toluca to see how many more UP trains traverse the line now west of Edelstein, and I was very surprised with the results. BNSF traffic was a lot better than I thought it would be too, since their traffic is down nearly 8% from last year. This was 5-19-07, a saturday night starting at 3:16pm to sunday 2:57pm.
1. 3:16 WB UP Auto
2. 3:29 EB SF Local working the pumpkin canning factory in town
3. 4:03 EB SF Freight
4. 4:05 WB SF Stack (mix I/E, domestic)
5. 4:13 EB SF Stack (mix i/e, domestic)
6. 4:33 EB SF Stack solid domestic Q-train
7. 4:46 WB SF Stack I/E mix
8. 4:51 EB UP Stack (pacer stacktrain via edelstien)
9. 5:05 WB SF Freight
10. 5:09 EB SF Stack short i/e
11. 5:18 EB SF Pig solid, mostly UPS, 127 trailers
12. 6:04 EB SF Auto
13. 6:14 EB SF Stack mix (distributed power)
14. 7:03 EB SF Pig solid, every type of trailer, 100+
15. 7:04 WB UP Auto
16. 7:56 WB SF Pig to Los Angeles, 156, everything (I just mean every type of trailer here i.e. ltl, ftl, ups)
17. 9:26 WB WB SF Pig solid, 78, everything
18. 9:26 EB SF Stack solid domestic (these guys met directly in front of me at speed!!)
19. 9:56 EB SF Stack i/e mix
20. 10:12 EB SF Freight
21. 10:22 WB SF Freight/local
22. 10:26 EB SF Auto
23. 10:39 EB SF Stack i/e mix
24. 10:44 WB SF Auto
25. 11:00 WB SF Stack mix
26. 11:09 EB SF Pig solid, everything, 85
27. 11:10 WB SF Pig solid, everytihng, 81
28. 11:27 WB UP Auto
29. 11:40 WB SF Stack domestic
30. 11:49 WB SF Pig everything, 61
31. 12:02 EB SF Freight
32. 12:19 WB SF Freight
33. 1:03 WB SF Pig everything, 68
34. 1:04 EB SF Stack
35. 1:37 EB UP Stack i/e mix via edelstein
36. 1:51 EB SF Stack i/e mix
37. 2:09 EB SF Stack i/e mix
38. 2:14 WB UP Stack mix domestic and i/e
39. 2:25 WB SF Pig mostly UPS, 50 I think this guy goes Richmond
40. 2:55 EB SF Pig everything, 80
41. 3:10 EB SF Stack domestic
42. 3:16 WB UP Stack i/e mix (APL, NOL, K-line)
43. 3:32 WB SF Stack i/e mix
44. 4:30 EB UP Stack domestic (pacer, emp)
45. 4:50 EB SF Pig mostly UPS, ltl, 69
46. 5:17 WB SF Stack i/e mostly Hanjin and China Shipping, very big
47. 5:35 EB SF Stack i/e mix
48. 5:37 WB SF Pig no UPS, 64
49. 5:42 EB SF Pig No UPS, nearly all refrigerated, probably FRS
50. 6:23 EB SF Freight
51. 6:37 EB SF Pig No UPS, solid, 97
52. 7:28 EB SF Stack mix
53. 8:31 EB SF Pig everything, 114
54. 8:35 WB SF Freight
55. 9:06 EB SF Pig lots UPS, 119
56. 10:01 EB SF Pig mostly UPS, 69
57. 10:06 WB SF Stack mix, lots msc
58. 10:30 EB SF Pig lots ftl (jb hunt), no UPS, 96
59. 10:44 EB SF Pig everything, 120
60. 10:57 EB SF Pig no UPS, 80
61. 11:09 EB SF Pig everything, 127
62. 11:12 WB SF Auto
63. 11:27 WB SF Stack solid cosco
64. 12:45 WB UP Stack i/e mix
65. 1:45 WB SF Pig everything, 57
66. 1:59 WB UP Auto
67. 2:02 EB SF Pig No UPS, mostly jb hunt, 102
68. 2:20 WB SF Auto, Automax
69. 2:57 EB SF Freight

In total that is: 59 BNSF, 8 WB Pigs, 15 EB pigs, 8 WB Stack, 13 EB Stack, 3 WB Auto, 2 EB Auto, 4 WB Freight, 6 EB Freight. 10 UP, 4 WB Auto, 3 WB Stack, 3 EB Stack. I think some of the autos still run the BNSF into Chicago.

That is the most EB's I have ever caught, but the lack of WB's made the total pretty normal. I guess I found out the weekends don't produce too many trains.

Thanks for reading, and Enjoy!

Wow, looks like you had a very busy day down there! Gotta love the BNSF. I would love to get down that way and catch the action for myself. Thank you for the detailed report.