A light engine movement heads south with several locomotives, including an IC&E SD40-2 trailing second to last. Canon 350D. 28-80mm.

Smoke from St. Louis' spectacular fireworks creates an eerie effect with the yard lights on 4th of July, the on duty crews at Lesperance had a good view of the show. Happy Birthday America! Canon ... (more)

The scrap job has a hold of 8 engines as a result of picking up power from a yarded train. Work on the new road alongside Dunn yard is picking up pace, dump trucks and equipment are everywhere, ma... (more)

As the moon sets over the Illinois farmland, illuminating a dense fog, the rythmic chant of EMD 645 prime movers on AMXAS 14 can be heard echoing through the night.

Three A&S switchers hold down this transfer at Jerome Ln. The A&S's original owners were MoPac and C&NW, hence the strange combo of MoPac blue, and C&NW yellow in their paint scheme.

The conductor on the "59 Local" steps down from his train to do a roll by on a passing auto rack in nasty conditions. After the train passed, he hurried back to the cab, and I hurried back to my c... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 2: Elusive Creatures Second stop on my ALCO Safari trip was the Mosaic potash terminal in Rosemount, they roster an ALCO S-2 and lease a rebuilt RS-3. On a whim I made a sto... (more)

The derailment put 24 cars on the ground, wiped out an entire road, and left about 600 residents without power, but less than 30 hours BNSF had trains rolling again. Ironically, it was with one of... (more)

With the sun below the horizon, IHOYC creeps northward towards Dupo past one of the few trees along this portion of the line. Canon 350D.

Early on a warm summer evening, the crew on H21 takes a quick breather after finishing their work spotting cars of newsprint for the Star Tribune, with the skyline of downtown Minneapolis looming ... (more)

Nearing the end of the day, a break in the clouds shows golden sunlight on this coal drag as it slips through Kirkwood on its westward trip. Canon 350D.

One of the vanishing cream and green MAC's leads this empty Rush Tower coal train up the hill out of the Meramec River Valley.. Canon 350D.

Just like the good ole' days . . . two IC SD70's and a Grand Trunk GP38, all unaltered, shove their train into Valley.

Looking like a rainbow, the YDU50 runs the transfer to 12th street yard from Dupo. Here it heads over E. St. Louis on the east approach to the MacArthur Bridge. Canon 350D.

Remembering the Manny: Unfortunately, nothing in this photo exists anymore. In 2005 a Manny SW1500 pulls a lone boxcar through Century Used Brick at the corner of Barton and 2nd Street. Cen... (more)