In the last hour of sunlight I caught this southbounder near Lake Moredock on the UP Chester Sub. The crew must have thought I was crazy standing on top of that gravel pile.

A southbound stack train at Kk Road near Valmeyer, Illinois.

This heavy train had two DPUs assisting at Kk Road on the UP Chester Subdivision south of St. Louis.

A northbound UP freight rolls along the bluffs of the Mississippi River as it heads for the St. Louis area.

A northbound mixed freight rolls along the Chester Subdivision with the Mississippi River bluffs on one side and acres upon acres of cornfields on the other.

SSW819 is returning to Pine Bluff from the 1990 NRHS convention in St. Louis, MO.

A northbound train passes over the crossover at Val, headed to St. Louis on the UP Chester Subdivision.

Between patches of sun and blowing snow a BNSF oil train makes its way south on the UP Chester Sub at Valmeyer.

A very short stack train headed south on the UP Chester Subdivision south of Valmeyer.

South bound on the Chester Sub at Kk Road.

It's harvest time in the fields of the Mississippi River bottom lands, and tractors, combines, and other farm equipment dot the landscape as a pair of SD70ACes leads an intermodal train north on t... (more)

The morning fog is burning off as a south bound manifest makes its way past KK Road on the UP Chester Sub.

Back when she was relatively new, the MoPac Heritage unit waits for a new crew at Valmeyer on a lower priority intermodal train as the sun sits low in the sky.

Illuminated by late afternoon sunshine, UP 7963 and the empty coal train under its command are unaffected by a dramatic thunderstorm looming 20 miles to the east.

A nice patched SP leader and a smoky SD70M are travelling north to Valley Junction on the UP Chester Sub.