Ina is a small town on Rend Lake, just south of Mt. Vernon. A retired couple casts their lines as a Texas-bound Union Pacific train with all-MP blue on the point crosses the lake in April, 1985. At Benton, this train will head southwest for Gorham, where it will connect to the busy St. Louis-Texas mainline. (Bob Schmidt, photo; MPHS collection)
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