Hennepin Job: After finishing the days work, Job 52 heads across the BNSF St. Paul Sub at Park Jct. They are heading for the yard at Midway where they will put the train away and take the p... (more)

Keeping Schedule: Making another stop in Chester, UP 844 accelerates, keeping a tight schedule while heading to Memphis, down river, for the bridge opening. A lot of the employees at the mi... (more)

4/7 of the MRS roster sits out side in the sun today, one is in the engine house, another is switching, and one more is leased out.

The engineer gives me a friendly wave and a toot on the horn as the LSE59 15's light power runs past the beautifuly restored Washington station.

With the St. Louis skyline crisp in the background, this UP manifest waits, with a jumble of power, for a signal through Valley Jct. Canon 350D.

UP's class unit GP60 #2000 stops briefly at Dupo to change crews and then will highball with southbound manifest MASNLX 06. Canon 350D, 28-80mm. f/5.6 @ 3.2 sec.

The DPU of an empty Westbound coal drag flies past Kirkwood station at around 8:00 pm. He had to be going at least 40 mph. 16 second exposure.

An NS grain train accelerates out of A.O.Smith Yard and through WR Tower, while we (Respondek) pick up cars left by the terminsl the night before. Canon 350D. 75-300mm.

Late in the afternoon, a warbonnet leads two rent-a-wreck tunnel motors across Laclede's Landing, past the old Union Light power plant, and the President Casino.

Two UP GP38's and a former Belt Rwy. leaser bring the 12th Street transfer down the elevated Lesperance Street Yard lead underneath the MacArthur Bridge complex. Canon 350D.

Strange Bedfellows: A KCS slug set sits MUed to EMLX 8551, one of the Ex. UP SD90MAC-H II's. Interesting to see these two sharing space in the engine facility, much less MUed together. Canon 350D,... (more)

Way Back Machine: In another scene that can't be repeated, in the summer of 2006, RRC 14 runs around steel coil cars on what is left of the Wabash UD line. The only remaining customers at t... (more)

Interesting what the KCS is resorting to for power these days :). I found this heap sitting at the E. St. Louis facilities. Canon 350D, 28-80mm.

After dropping their train in North yard, the 3 C420's that brought in the Monett turn cut off and head for the shops to call it a day. Canon 350D.

Busy Yard, Sometimes That Is: La Crosse is one of those places on the CP where there either isn't much going on, or everything happens at once. Today, just before sunset, 471 has made their... (more)