On National Train Day 2014 A Union Pacific Northbound Coal Train Slows to Enter the Yard in Dupo Illinois, while the DPUs slowly pass by some sprouting corn in a near by field.

The Nose of a Former Cotton Belt GP60 Now UP 1963, as it is seen on point of a Northbound Manifest awaiting a new crew.

A Fairly Long Manifest Train Heads South Down the Chester Sub, with CSXT and CN Power on Point.

A CSX GE and a UP SD70M lead a Manifest south down the Chester Sub.

A Southbound Manifest Waits for a Signal at ICG from BB Rd. This Train would wait for three Northbounds before it was able to go south.

A Long Loaded Coal Train Heads South down the Chester Sub with a CSX GEVO 2nd Out.

Cornfield Color. It isn't common for Union Pacific to put a GP60 on the point of a manifest train, let alone one still wearing Saint Louis Southwestern colors. Someone in North Little Rock ... (more)

NS 1069, The Virginian Heritage Unit, Awaits a New Crew at the Defect Detector at Milepost 15.2 on the Chester Sub, as another Oil Train speeds South With a Combination of BNSF and CP Power, seen ... (more)

This Former Cotton Belt GP60 Is seen awaiting a new crew to take the train north. Yes This Locomotive was leading a Mainline Freight Train. The rest of the lash up might have been the coolest one ... (more)

On a Warm Sunny Morning in the Saint Louis Area a Southbound Manifest Rolls Through Columbia Illinois

A northbound UP freight wanders northbound at a leisurely pace as it prepares to hold south of ICG in Columbia, IL, for traffic further north to clear. The previously dull cloud cover is beginning... (more)

Headed south on the UP Chester Sub at Bb Road.

The Virginian heritage unit rolls across lonely Steppig Road in rural Illinois on its journey south to St. James, LA.

UP 6359 & UP 6415 leads a loaded coal 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 ditch ... (more)

A Shorter Coal Train Heads North on the Chester Sub. You can see the head end taking the switch at Bixby to Head into Dupo Yard on the far left of the photo.