At the end of a long day the crew on this northbound manifest discuss the prospects of the coming evening while waiting to roll by a southbound train just outside of Dupo.
At the confluence of three rivers, an eastbound manifest is starting to hug the banks of the Monongahela River. In the background the West End Bridge spans the Ohio River.
Q394 cliimbs the west slope nears the crest of the Sand Patch grade.
The engineer and conductor of this train chat while waiting to move north, part of a long line of trains waiting to be crewed and taken to Alton & Southern's Gateway Yard
There is no shortage of visibilty of the ex-L&N line through Rahm. You can see the line for all of the 3.5-mile-long trestle.
As twilight comes to an end, and the night slowly creeps in, this UP stack train roars past AKBASX 25 just outside of Dupo, IL.
Dash 8 rushes intermodal east at milepost 29 of the Philly Subdivision.