A former Santa Fe warbonnet leads a northbound empty oil train along parallel Highway 79 in northeastern Missouri.

1/3 of UP's heritage fleet congregates at Maplewood, MO, as the Rio Grande unit, serving as the DPU on Dupo, IL, bound intermodal KLBDU 20, meets the WP unit resting on the point of coal train CBT... (more)

GN 441, decked out in big sky blue, now serves as a luxury mountain resort deep in the northern Montana Rockies at the Izzak Walton Inn. Though this unit hasn't seen freight service in a number of... (more)

Three colorful EMDs lead Louisville-bound manifest freight Q573 down Main Street in La Grange, KY. Behind the clean SD70MAC is a pair of leased SD40-2s, one each in CEFX blue and Burlington Northe... (more)

After assisting a stalled coal train up Kirkwood Hill, a pair of UP motors, including a reactivated C40-8, drift downgrade through Keyes Summit to pick up their quality manifest train that they le... (more)

"Let's get this party started." Those were the words uttered rather dryly by the crew of QNPINP as their 8,300 horsepower worth of diesel locomotive leaned into the rear of a Meremac coal l... (more)

The Savannah and Atlanta and Conrail heritage units (NS 1065 and 8098, respectively) head for Luther Yard in North St. Louis for servicing. In a few hours, they will return to their coal train and... (more)

Heritage hat trick. NS's Southern heritage unit rests outside of A.O. Smith Yard after leading train 168 in earlier in the afternoon. Three tracks over, the Savannah and Atlanta and Conrail... (more)

Amtrak's Phase II heritage unit leads the afternoon Missouri River Runner up to the historic Kirkwood, MO, depot in order to pick up passengers for the trip west.

A glimpse into the past. "Old" Valmeyer, IL, was once a quaint small town two miles from the east bank of the mighty Mississippi River. In 1993, the Mississippi flooded its banks in one of ... (more)

Cornfield Color. It isn't common for Union Pacific to put a GP60 on the point of a manifest train, let alone one still wearing Saint Louis Southwestern colors. Someone in North Little Rock ... (more)

One of only a handful of NS's Operation Lifesaver (OLS) 25th Anniversary C40-9Ws trails a mundane sister on a westbound grain train traveling through Wentzville, MO.

A northbound UP freight wanders northbound at a leisurely pace as it prepares to hold south of ICG in Columbia, IL, for traffic further north to clear. The previously dull cloud cover is beginning... (more)

The Virginian heritage unit rolls across lonely Steppig Road in rural Illinois on its journey south to St. James, LA.

The NYC heritage unit, leading BNSF MWQMNSL, blocks traffic on Hall Street as it works its way into NS' Luther Yard to drop off its train. Truck traffic is prominent on Hall Street as the corridor... (more)