Dupo Deadline: a quartet of problematic SD9043MAC units await disposition, likely to nearby Metro East Industries, at the former Missouri Pacific Yard in Dupo, IL

The railfan network was working on this day in 2019 when the MoPac Heritage Unit was spotted departing the A&S Gateway Yard heading south. Thanks to come congestion around Dupo, many folks were a... (more)

A load of Wyoming coal bound for the Associated Electric Cooperative in New Madrid, MO passes beneath the former MoPac cantilever signals at the crossover at the mid-point of Dupo Yard.

Union Pacific 5745 prepares to depart the Dupo, Illinois yard on Main Track 1. In the background you can see the St. Louis skyline.

After changing crews, the southbound manifest passes the former Missouri Pacific Signals guarding the south end of the crossover.

The road power has been removed from CYDU (Cheyenne, WY-Dupo, IL) and the yard unit brings the train in for unloading as it passes the Missouri Pacific cantilever signal guarding the south end of ... (more)

A new crew has boarded and received clearance to proceed south in dense, sub freezing fog conditions that have begun icing on locomotives and cars.

A pair of EMDs have brought an intermodal train to Dupo, IL.

Way Back Machine: Before the oddball models were disposed from UP's roster, a veteran SP SD45 rebuild hustles a Northbound freight through Dupo on a foggy spring morning. This unit started ... (more)

UP train ZG4MQ-27 is seen passing under the MoPac era cantilever signal bridges in Dupo Illinois.

MP 2546 at Dupo, IL, Jul 29, 1979.

MP 2520 at Dupo, IL July 29, 1979..

MP 1767 with local 465 at S Dupo, IL, Jun 30, 1979.

UP 6359 & UP 6415 leads a loaded coal train south near Columbia on former Missouri Pacific's now Union Pacific's Chester Sub. First I've ever seen from one of these units, UP 6359 had oscillating ... (more)

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.