A UP stack train awaits a new crew with a pair of old SD40-2's, snoot nose leading, as snow relentlessly blows around us. Time: 02:35AM.

One of only a handful of Snoots that can lead on the Geneva sub picks up speed, heading east across the Illinois plains, approaching Ashton. Elevation provided by a friend's van.

3 veteran SD40-2s pull a manifest freight train through West Chicago