Take the long way home. Despite its status as a high priority passenger special, UP OCS PJCME2 29 has encountered a plethora of TRRA-induced track maintenance during its brief trip through ... (more)

Cornfield Color. It isn't common for Union Pacific to put a GP60 on the point of a manifest train, let alone one still wearing Saint Louis Southwestern colors. Someone in North Little Rock ... (more)

The fun and foe of chasing. Chasing historic steam locomotives is always a good time, but the chase doesn't come without its hardships. Just take a look at those gas prices! UP 844 and the ... (more)

Headed for interchange with CSX, FEC ES44C4s 806 and 809 trail a KCS Southern Belle SW1500 on transfer freight YVN112. Sitting isolated in the background is the former road approach to the MacArth... (more)

Drag Race! Union Pacific's 844 leads a passenger special into Kansas City Union Station on April 25th, 2010. On the left, a BNSF autorack train powered by modern, standard diesels is overta... (more)

After spending most of the afternoon idling in the small yard at Essex, a pair of Dash 9 helpers finally have an assignment as they head for the mainline to shove an eastbound freight over Marias ... (more)

The Manufacturers Railway's 7:00 am job switches the Budweiser Brewery south of downtown St. Louis. With limited time left for this historic railway, railfans have come from far and wide to shoot ... (more)

In a busy scene depicting a typical day at Alton and Southern's Gateway Yard, two fresh SD40Ns perform switching duties as MOW workers tend to one of the yard tracks. Stored power, including some ... (more)

Southern, serves the midwest! Recently restored Southern 401 is headed south across the Camp Creek Bridge during one of the only periods of light for the whole day. Soon it will power upgra... (more)

Going Home. For the first time in approximately a half of a century, Norfolk and Western Y6a #2156 rolls over "home rails" as it departs the Terminal Railroad's Merchants Subdivision and en... (more)

Three colorful EMDs lead Louisville-bound manifest freight Q573 down Main Street in La Grange, KY. Behind the clean SD70MAC is a pair of leased SD40-2s, one each in CEFX blue and Burlington Northe... (more)

There's no mistaking where we are here! With the world famous St. Louis Arch in the background, UP 3985 slows to a stop west of downtown.

Union Pacific 844, adorned with flags from both the Confederacy and the Union, rolls along at a good clip along the south bank of the Missouri River at Wooldridge, MO. This shot was taken from the... (more)

UP 844 creeps off of the MacArthur Bridge approach near the Alton and Southern Gateway Yard and Valley Junction. The train will soon make its first stop in Dupo before running down the Chester Sub... (more)

The Leviathan comes around the curve into the town of Monticello. In the background, kids play and ride bikes after witnessing the 63 storm through. The Leviathan did have a caboose the previous d... (more)