UP’s Bloomington, IL - Alton, IL manifest blasts off from Hazel Dell after waiting for an eastbound.

UP 2184 leading MBNAS in the final rays of the day at Broadwell on the former GM&O.

UP 2184 & 2646 bringing MBNAS through Atlanta in the last suckerhole of light downtown. They would've been here at least 30 minutes sooner had they not had a PTC mishap leaving the yard.

UPs Bloomington to Alton & Southern manifest, a train normally utilizing UPs finest road power, features some Alton & Southern painted locomotives this evening… seen here rumbling out of McLean ... (more)

High above the small farm town of McLean, UPs Bloomington to Alton & Southern manifest crawls south after meeting Amtrak. Todays train features the two sole ALS painted locomotives.

A pair of 2 window SD60M’s lead MBNAS South on the UP Springfield Sub. This train is now abolished and these units are back in storage more than likely.

UP ONCE A FAST 40 SAS Once a ''Fast 40'', bracketed by two Centennial Locomotives and numbered 8037, the locomotive is now in a more pedestrian environment as Union Pacific Railroad SD40-2 rebuil... (more)

Union Pacific 2280 South sails through Funks Grove, where, in 2006, two men claimed to have seen Big Foot. Steve Smedley photo

Union Pacific 2280 South sails along the Mother Road, Old US Route 66, as it passes through Atlanta just as the snow begins to fall, February 28, 2015. Steve Smedley photo

A Union Pacific Railroad Southbound train, led by a Norfolk Southern locomotive, is about to cross the diamond at BN Target on the west side of Bloomington, Illinois. Another train, on the Norfolk... (more)