Not everywhere along the Chester Sub is flat, and this little hill over a drainage canal is acute enough to hide southbound trains a mile north. You can see that by the disappearing coal hoppers.

A colorful UP train heads south at Granite City.

UP grain train heads up the TRRA with two CP units, about to reach its destination across the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, MO.

Grain loads come down the Springfield Sub through Hole In The Wall, named because there is a hole in the wall, which goes through TRRA's approach to the MacArthur Bridge out of Q Tower.

Just after a frosty sunrise, MASNL 17 heads south and passes by a crewless CJOWT9 16.

A quintet of EMDs takes an Alton & Southern transfer back home from Saint Louis. The pair of SD40-2s normally works the hump, while the other units have been gathered for a trip to North Little Ro... (more)

Southbound coal over Moredock Lake with a former CNW tailing along.

DPU passes some trees which were probably part of someone's yard prior to 1993. Valmeyer was largely destroyed in the Summer of 1993 by Mississippi River flooding. Some folks remain, but a new tow... (more)

A coal load headed for Chiles, KY rounds the first curve on the Chester Sub in almost 20 miles.

Coal loads snake through Valley Junction on their way to Union Pacific's Cotton Belt Yard

Due to severe midwest river flooding over the spring and summer of 1993, and unprecedented number of detours througout the region became necessary. One of these was SP's train ESDAT, which normall... (more)

A typical NPSLCX, with several CSX units, heads past Kirkwood Depot on the north track. The truck sitting next to the track was still dressed in MoPac orange, and had the MoPac herald on the door.... (more)

New Madrid coal empties lean into the curve just west of the Kirkwood depot and have just started their descent downhill for several miles. Most of the day was overcast, but a short afternoon repr... (more)

A large pile of freshly removed rail sits along UP's Jeff City Sub after a bit of track maintenance.

MASKC 25 is one of a trio of westbounds that went by this morning, started off by AASFX 25 lead by UP 1982.