A large line of engines is stopped on #1 main track at Flinton, IL awaiting traffic ahead to move. These engines were headed to Sterling, IL. Behind it is a stopped Joppa coal empty. Power on EMOS... (more)

A quartet of ALS switchers runs a transfer from Gateway Yard to the UP at 12th Street in Saint Louis

A half dozen KCSM units head through Q Tower not long after KCS first got a hold of them a short time before.

Coal empties from Wheatfield, IN get ready to swing onto the UP Chester Sub and head to Dupo for a crew change.

A northbound merchandise train pulls to a stop at DD Road, towing along a quintet of locomotives bound for Metro East Industries

With the Gateway Arch in the background, UP 844 heads south on the Chester Sub on its way to Cape Girardeau, MO.

Southbound BNSF passes by a relic of the Frisco which once carried signal code and communication lines. Many of the River Sub poles in southern Missouri were removed in the mid 2000s, but a few st... (more)

UP ballast train dumps rock as part of a line upgrade to support high speed Amtrak trains from Saint Louis to Chicago

RRC 3086, temporarily dressed as ITC 2301, sits under a full moon on a warm spring night

I miss the days of the Southern Pacific assortment of battered six axles topping Kirkwood Hill with all their might, sometimes at just a few miles per hour. This particular train had no trouble ma... (more)

While looking from just the right angle, one could argue that TRRA sponsors a bit of rooftop running in downtown St. Louis

A pair of Canadian units and a UP take MASIH up the Alton & Southern Railway to Lenox Tower, where they will get on the UP Pana Sub for their trip to the IHB.

DPU of a loaded eastbound coal train passes over the Meramec River on an autumn day

The cacti may give this a southwestern appeal, but really, it was just another late summer day in St. Louis. I guess someone decided the ROW needed to be decorated with a spread of cactus.

Fall foliage is still colorful along the Mississippi River bluffs as this coal load heads south at Fults