In this case, the answer to the age old question of how many people it takes to change a lightbulb is three.

Illuminated by an approaching southbound, this trackage rights train waits for a signal at North Dupo

Three TRRA switchers bring a train into Dupo which will become UP's MTRLI later in the day

Coal empty waits for a crew to head west to Wyoming

UP's Chicago and Northwestern heritage unit pulls the SBUDU special its last mile into the Dupo, IL, yards late in the day.

UP 7439 Kicks up some snow as it traverses the mainline through Dupo, Il enroute to Memphis, Tn

CNW 8539 awaits assignment at UP's Dupo Yard in the spring of 1996.

Manifest pulls into Dupo on its way to the Alton and Southern Gateway Yard on a beautiful June morning.

After changing crews here in Dupo, this intermodal gets back underway. Mike Mautner caught this same train in Granite City earlier today (http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=225664).

UP 629 Backing under remote control.

The conductor rides the point of 4141, the unit backs up to pick up a string of double stacks.

A south bound freight streaks past a cantilever signal in UP's Dupo Yard.

Union Pacific GP38-2 #805 acting as switcher as it takes a cut of stack train cars southward through the UP Dupo Yard on a beautiful, yet chilly early March morning--Nikon D200

Union Pacific #6068 and mixed freight awaiting a new crew in the Union Pacific Dupo, IL yard on a beautiful, clear February morning--Nikon D200