One of the Transcon's hottest intermodal trains powers through West Baring, MO, with a quartet of orange GE motors in control. The train is passing through a control point still guarded by an ATSF... (more)

A fakebonnet and a standard cab NS Dash 9 lead HGALMEM by the St. Louis Riverfront on a typically slow Thursday morning.

A westbound coal train on the Union Pacific passes through the small town of Pacific, MO. The hills in the background are covered with snow and the old buildings of downtown stand to the left of t... (more)

Just a few minutes after sunrise, NS 111 pounds through St. Peters with the Reading heritage unit, NS 1067, in the third position. Besides the RDG, the consist also includes an SD70, a C40-9, and ... (more)

Illuminated by late afternoon sunshine, UP 7963 and the empty coal train under its command are unaffected by a dramatic thunderstorm looming 20 miles to the east.

Searchlight signals, sweet sunlight, and a Santa Fe SD75M meet in this view of former ATSF warbonnet #205 leading a short string of coiled steel cars down the Cuba Subdivision at West Dillon.

With Montana wildflowers in full bloom, a pair of Dash 9s shove a stack train towards Marias Pass. The Izzak Walton Inn's caboose cabins can be seen seen above the train in the background.

4 railroads are represented in this rolling meet shot as a northbound BNSF manifest with two UP units and a Santa Fe boxcar meets southbound freight HGALMEM with two fresh CN SD60s at Old Monroe, ... (more)

Nice light illuminates 3 NS GEs and a lone SD60 on a 12 platform intermodal as it disturbs the loneliness of the small town of Wright City for just a brief minute.

A UP coal drag heads back west through Kearney, NE.

An Alton and Southern transfer with a fresh HLCX Geep trailing pulls into downtown St. Louis to drop off some cars at UP's 12th Street Yard. The clock tower for the famous St. Louis Union Station ... (more)

The Monongahela heritage unit takes in some late afternoon light as it sits on the point of an empty crude oil train waiting in the hole at Atwater, IL, for two southbound trains to clear.

It's the "Pointless Arrow", "Bloody Nose", or whatever you want to call it; AMTK 156 leads a slightly late 313 under the Barrett Station Road overpass as clouds and an ancient code pole line enhan... (more)

The interesting geometry of the MacArthur Bridge frames a trio of light UP engines as they drop down to the Lesperance Street Yard. Two crewmen are getting a good view from the front of the lead u... (more)

A pair of former ATSF B40-8Ws, one still in Santa Fe Warbonnet paint, ease their local train onto the Smithboro siding for a meet with a southbound coal train. Even though their duties have been r... (more)