The Plainville branch is probably already on borrowed time, but UP is still spending a few dollars on maintenance, as evidenced by this ballast train behind a hybrid yellow/MP GP50.
Three brand-new Missouri Pacific EMD SD50 locomotives power a coal train at Dupo, Illinois, in December 1984. Dupo is located south of St. Louis on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.
Southland movie star Missouri Pacific EMD GP38-2 No. 2377 rests at Yard Center locomotive facility at Dolton, Illinois, on August 10, 1986, after starring in a movie disguised as Southla... (more)