Under a deep blue sky, SP's Roseville to Alton & Southern (St. Louis) Q-train ascends the Mapleton Bench on June 26, 1994. The SP 7321 was built by EMD as SP SD40 No. 8415 in Feb. 1966.

A unique consist of a rebuilt Southern Pacific SD40, Santa Fe GE, Illinois Central SD70, and NRE (former Seaboard System) EMD bring a mixed freight past the Joliet Amtrak station. Tom Golden phot... (more)