Running in beautiful late afternoon sunlight, Alton & Southern SD60's #2205 & 2204 lead Union Pacific Train MBNAS southbound as they roar down the Springfield Sub through McLean, Illinois., on the... (more)

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&S 2204 leads the MBNAS south toward Springfield IL.

UP 4141, the locomotive that pulled the funeral train for former President George H.W. Bush is on a tour of the Union Pacific system and is shown trailing 1943 on train MPRAS. The SD70ACe, feature... (more)

UP Heritage Repaint of Mopac Sas Union Pacific Railroad's first heritage unit repaint is SD70ACe 1982. Tim Holmes and his two year-old son Jason videotape and photograph the DPU on Southbound Uni... (more)

Wreck crews from Hulcher wave to Amtrak train 311, ''The Loop'', as it rolls slowly past derailed South Local at the elevator track lead in McLean, Illinois. Steve Smedley photo

Union Pacific Railroad train M BNAS (manifest Bloomington-Alton Southern) blasts down the mainline of the former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. Steve Smedley

Amtrak 170 pulls its heart out trying to maintain track speed with an 8 car Texas Beagle headed for St. Louis and beyond.

The sun drops behind the clouds as the crew from Union Pacific train M ASBN prepares to meet and inspect Amtrak train 307 at McLean, Illinois on the former Alton Route. Steve Smedley photo

Southbound Lincoln Service train blasts through the small town of McLean with the Phase II in charge.

Union Pacific train M ASBN conductor walks ahead of the stopped train in order to flag a highway crossing at the north end of the siding at McLean, Illinois on another typical spring day in Illino... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad train M ASBN (ALTON SOUTHERN - BLOOMINGTON) is crawling through the McLean siding during a perfectly timed meet with Amtrak train 304, which will pass the leader, an SD70Ace... (more)

A Union Pacific Railroad special heads south through McLean, Illinois and over former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio trackage on Tuesday Oct. 2, 2007. The train ran with the symbol SCHSL02. Brand new ES44AC ... (more)