UP 5307 and UP 4404 charge underneath the coal tower in DeKalb, IL, with UP's OCS train, heading westbound out of Chicago after coming up from the St. Louis area earlier in the day. Tonight's rendition has a special guest - the first car behind the locomotives is C&NW 553, which had been stored at Metra's Elburn facility since July 2022. There had been talk of the Illinois Railway Museum looking to acquire the car, but those plans never came to fruition. Tonight the OCS made a special stop at Elburn to pick up the car and take it with the rest of the trainset to Council Bluffs, where its fate is unknown (at least by me).
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
