An NS train with a nice consist moving south at Ziebold Road on the UP Chester Sub.

Strangers in the night. Just shy of 10:30pm, a light engine movement waits for a signal into Dupo yard, running wrong main, while a hot autorack screams by for points south. Canon 350D.

UP 7207 gains speed after coming out of the yard in Dupo Illinois as it leads its long string of coal loads south down the Chester Sub.

The DPU of a northbound manifest freight drifts through Columbia, IL, on a warm summer evening. This train was one of many negotiating its way through the mess of traffic on the northern portion o... (more)

Who's railroad is this? KCS 4168, TFM 1654 & UP 9264 leads the ZLDYC-01 east past Ferromex 4077 near Columbia, Illinois on Union Pacific's Chester Subdivision.

Union Pacific Ran one last train at Sunset Heading north on the Chester Sub Through Columbia IL.

A crossing gate protects lonely Steppig Road as UP 6442 rumbles through with a northbound coal train.

Trains can really flow on the Chester Sub double track. Here a pair meet at Bottom Road, near Columbia.

A southbound UP coal train accelerating out of the Dupo yard. Early morning fog along the Mississippi River usually burns off by 9 am.

A pair of consecutively numbered SD40Ns roll MASAS southbound through the soybean fields of southern Illinois.

Meet Virginian. A southbound UP grain train meets Virginian heritage unit-led empty crude oil train ONUEU at Warnock on UP's Chester Subdivision. The VGN was sitting crewless in a line of n... (more)

A northbound NS train on the UP Chester Sub at Bottom Road.

Union Pacific Intermodal Train ZSEMN Rockets down the Chester Sub Just south of Columbia IL

The lowest numbered unit on CSX's roster, the Spirit of West Virginia, teams up with a BNSF Dash 9 to pull UP freight MASSH 19 southbound to Shreveport, LA.

On National Train Day 2014 A Union Pacific Southbound Grain Train is seen passing through Columbia Illinois, with a pair of patched Southern Pacific AC4400CWs in the Locomotive Consist.