Скачать или смотреть WATCO Decatur & Eastern Illinois RR Ethanol and Yard Job Kicking Cars - February 26&27, 2026

I managed to catch 3 different crews working the Decatur & Eastern Illinois RR around the Decatur area on February 26 and 27. I arranged the video backwards so that the yard job footage lands at the end of the video.

First up in the video captures the 400 crew bringing the road train west into Decatur with 3 units in the lead in the morning on the 27th. The regular 101 crew then took the road train back east a couple hours later (which I missed on video).
Then around noon, the 400 crew brought out a loaded ADM Ethanol train eastbound, to hand off to CSX.
Final scenes show the Decatur Yard team working in late afternoon on the 26th kicking some cars in the yard. I've seen them do this a couple times, but this is my first time getting it on film with the drone. The Decatur Yard is a shaped as a bowl, with the middle of the yard being the low point, allowing for car kicking to speed up the classification work.

Chapters:
0:00 - Road Train into Decatur
0:17- Ethanol heading East
2:00 - A Happy Little Ethanol Car
2:33 - Decatur Yard Job Kicking Cars
3:05 - another "kick"
3:30 - close-up of the yard power