A Pine Bluff, Arkansas, bound manifest freight rolls southward through the southern Illinois farmland along the Chester Subdivision.

After holding at the south end of the former SSW yard in Sauget, MCHPB with MEC 619 throttles up for its last 3 miles into Dupo for a crew change. The St. Louis skyline, including the Gateway Arch... (more)

Not quite Maine. An interesting consist of eastern power, including Pan Am SD40M-2 MEC 619, powers 131-car UP manifest MCHPB through the barren farmland south of Valmeyer, IL.