The UP local waits on the Dick Lead for two Illinois & Midland track inspectors to clear up before heading south to the I&M yard to make a pick up.
Three units from the 57A roll South past the entrance to UP's De Soto Car Shops.
An ex-SSW GP60 leads today's "57A" into De Soto, where it'll setout it's train of bad ordered cars that will be repaired at the car shops. Look closely: Car three is a CSXT hopper on a flatcar.
UP 1963 pulls up to WC 2004 near the depot.
The Union Pacific is using a patched SSW GP60 for switching in the Wisconsin Rapids area. Here UP 1963 heads back to the yard after switching cars out at Domtar Paper Mill in Nekoosa.
An old SSW sits in the yard at Wisconsin Rapids.
UP 1963 rests while the CN's Shuttle puts its train together.