After holding at the south end of the former SSW yard in Sauget, MCHPB with MEC 619 throttles up for its last 3 miles into Dupo for a crew change. The St. Louis skyline, including the Gateway Arch... (more)

Interesting ACes. Nearly new Union Pacific SD70ACe #8723, serving as the DPU on ZSEMN 19, glides past the Missouri Pacific heritage unit at Pacific, MO. UP 1982 was on display for the town'... (more)

Not quite Maine. An interesting consist of eastern power, including Pan Am SD40M-2 MEC 619, powers 131-car UP manifest MCHPB through the barren farmland south of Valmeyer, IL.

Nickel Plate Road 765 trails an employee excursion over the high Missouri River Bridge in St. Charles, MO. The Wabash and IT heritage units are on the other end. Even though the TravelMaster is a ... (more)

Two DPUs on NS empty coal train 431 prepare to push northbound out of Granite City. The NKP heritage unit, NS 8100, is the interior DPU. This train actually sported two heritage units: the Nickel ... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Central of Georgia (CofG) heritage unit throttles up with 3780 tons of manifest for Kansas City.

The Western Pacific heritage unit leads a Marion, AR, bound intermodal train through another town called Marion, though this one is in Missouri. In just a few minutes, the WP would pull up to the ... (more)

NS auto train 145, rerouted due to a derailment, slams by NS coal train 431 at Granite City, IL. 145 was only 8 cars long tonight, and I almost got both the head end and EOT in the same exposure. ... (more)

NS' first ES44AC leads the Penn Central heritage unit, NS 1073, and grain train 54A through the small town of Posey, IL. Later in the day, the train struck a truck. Luckily, the crew was fine, tho... (more)

Luckily, the heritage unit trails. At first, I was a little disappointed that the Penn Central heritage unit (NS 1073) was third out on this loaded grain train. Not long after this shot was... (more)

NKP 765 shows off its best angle as it gets ready to cross the Missouri River. Note the scores of chasers on the ground all getting their shots of the big Berkshire.

Heritage Glint. In the last few moments of sunlight, intermodal train ZSEMN 07 enters the western edge of the St. Louis suburbs with the WP heritage unit in the lead.

The Central of Georgia heritage unit leads 3780 ton 112 at track speed through the town of Pendleton. The CofG unit is a long way from home rails!

Beiber Fever. While walking onto the 14th Street overpass to see one of the stars of Amtrak's fleet of P42DCs, Phase II heritage unit #66, I was shocked to see packs of teenage girls walkin... (more)

NS 924 waits for a recrew at the south end of Litchfield with the Conrail heritage unit in the lead radiator first. The CR unit led the train south to Staunton, where it ran around the flat cars. ... (more)