MRS 254, a late production MP15DC, smokes it up at it goes to work shoving a long cut of hoppers back into the MRS yard.. Canon 350D. 75-300mm.

Local power for the Crystal City Local lately is this EMDX Geep 38, which still looks good in its blue-and-white while sitting on the yard lead to the BNSF's tiny Crystal City yard. Canon 350D. 75... (more)

A UP stack train comes through the bridge in Fountain at a good clip, but is already slowing for a welder that's working about 5 miles ahead. Canon 350D. 28-80mm.

A BNSF manifest backs into the terminals Madison Yard after making a long poke at the south end. Canon 350D. 75-300mm.

This is the end of the day for this crew as they disembark and toss their grips into the "crew jeep" for the trip back to their point of origin. Canon 350D, 75-300mm.

Power pokes out from various places in the 12th Street Yard complex well after sunset. Canon 350D, 75-300mm. f/8 @ 20 sec.

With the engineer in the trailing rear motor, the conductor rides the rear platform as he directs the power from QDYAS into Dupo Yard at sunset. Canon 350D, 28-80mm.

One of USS' battered switchers sits in front of the plant it has served for so long. Anybody know what that black smoke is from? Canon 350D, 28-80mm.

Power rests by the UP's Lesperance Street Yard tower on a windy night. The winds were a precursor to the devastating severe weather that would follow. Canon 350D, 28-80mm. f/4 @ 6 sec.

This winged DASH 8 bursts into a section of sunlight as it comes off TRRA's Illinois Transfer District and through Valley Jct. to reach UP's Cotton Belt yard. Note the stainless steel commemorativ... (more)

The A&S' only two road switchers are on the point of a northbound terminal train with a trailing EMDX SD60. This train was shot from the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River. Canon 350D... (more)

UP's class unit GP60 #2000 stops briefly at Dupo to change crews and then will highball with southbound manifest MASNLX 06. Canon 350D, 28-80mm. f/5.6 @ 3.2 sec.

Late at night this intermodal lingers in the heavy fog at Dupo with an old SP as the third unit. Canon 350D, 28-80mm. f/7.1 @ 30 sec.

Illuminated by a southbound, this northbound manifest waits in the hole, being run-around by both north- and southbounds. He's barely visible but the conductor is on the left side of the locomotiv... (more)

This UP RCL local patientally waits to switch Alton's large grain facility with the spectacular Lewis & Clark suspension bridge in the background. Canon 350D, 28-80mm.