A pair of former Burlington Northern SD70MACs lead Rush Island bound coal train C NRMRTR1 07A through the siding switch at Old Monroe, MO. Signal gangs are currently installing new SafeTrans tri-l... (more)

A colorful consist of BNSF locomotives skirts the trailing edge of a thunderstorm on UP's Chester Subdivision south of Valmeyer, IL. The power consists of a brand new SD70ACe, a Grinstein green BN... (more)

Sixth time's a charm. After failing 5 times to catch a former Cotton Belt GP60 leading the local to Pacific, MO, in good light, I finally got the shot I was looking for in downtown St. Loui... (more)

After having it's tenders topped off with water and letting eastbound local D53 with a high hood leader pass, NKP 765 creeps forward to let the IT and Wabash heritage units, NS 1072 and 1070, resp... (more)

With the former SSW freight station towering above, unpatched SP 107 and a CSX SD60M lead detoured UP manifest MHOKC 22 down the TRRA's Merchants Subdivision after it was forced to bypass the pref... (more)

Southbound CalTrain 236 arrives to pick up and drop off passengers at the historic Menlo Park station.

UP 844 and the Mopac heritage unit lead the Little Rock Express Tour through Columbia, IL. The train is only a mile out of Dupo Yard but it is already rolling at a good clip, and we would not catc... (more)

Admirers look on as Southern Railway #401 simmers at the Monticello Depot waiting for its run back north to the depot at Nelson's Crossing.

A Union Pacific coal train heads north preparing to turn east onto the Merchants bridge. It is passing the vintage SSW freight depot that has seen its share of trains and taggers.

A UP coal empty passes through Kirkwood on its way back to Wyoming.

Who says the Illinois Terminal died in the 1980s?

Soft, low sunlight illuminates a very clean SD70ACe as it slowly leads a manifest with an NS GE and a Warbonnet B40-8W through an industrial area north of downtown St. Louis.

Got Smoke? The NKP 765 sure does.

WP and MP heritage. The Western Pacific heritage unit has hot intermodal train ZG4MQ 19 rolling southward after a two-minute long crew change in Dupo, IL. The cantilever signal bridge, inst... (more)

A nose-to-nose comparison of two classic schemes on modern widecab locomotives-- one executed a little better than the other.