A BNSF ballast train bound for Iron Mountain crests the summit at Blackwell, on UP's ex MoPac De Soto Subdivision.

BNSF 5844's conductors desk lit up on a cold and snowy Winter night.

Gateway Western 1504 idles at the racks in KCS's East Saint Louis Yard on a beautiful February afternoon.

A&S Job 102 brings CSX Q333 into Gateway Yard with a cool EMD lashup leading.

Freshly repainted United States Steel Works SW9 #1246 switches gondolas at the mill in Granite City.

After dragging 82 loads and two buffer cars out of the plant with a GP8 and a SW, the power has been tied down and the crew has gone home. Later on that night a crew came back out and handed the t... (more)

Two yellow leasing GP's get their quasi street running on, during the shove back towards WR Tower after switching Shapiro Brothers Steel in Granite City.

An Eastbound loaded coal train rolls alongside slate cliffs on BNSF's K Line.

After working this train the night before, an empty Rush Island coal train works its way back to the mine for loading, while AmerenUE's Sioux Plant looms in the distance. The company I work for, M... (more)

High hood party! Three NS high-hood GP38-2's are tied down awaiting a new crew on the V&C Belt in the ghetto with one of Granite City's steel mills in the distance.

TRRA's 102 job does quasi street running while pulling out of the Shapiro Brothers lead in industrial Granite City, and prepares to shove back to WR tower to switch another steel mill.

Birthday present #2. After glassing a fresh repaint Terminal GP38-2 on Job 202, we found a KCS Ghost leading long hood forward on the switch job to Juan, right before sunset.

On my 20th birthday, the TRRA decided they'd play nice and give me a present... In the form of a fresh repainted GP38-2 on Job 202, as they continue to switch DOW Chemicals in North Saint Louis...... (more)

All tied down, a SD40-2 holds the A&E Main awaiting a new crew to proceed into AO Smith Yard.

A matching pair of CSXT ES40DC's switch UP's 12th Street Yard on a beautiful March afternoon in Saint Louis, while an Eastbound empty coal bucket rolls by on the fast track.