Here we find an A&S pull job with a pair of NS units, a leaser and the MoPac and Katy heritage units. Canon 350D.
A newer KCS unit leads this UP intermodal train, ZMQDU 07, down a snowy MacArthur Bridge lead on a cold winter day.
A colorful variety of power, led by a CSX motor, heads up MNLTR 03 tonight, as it waits for a signal at North Dupo. It's refreshing to see something other than UP for a change. Canon 350D, 28-80mm... (more)
The M&VP's major customer is Diamler Chrysler, here we see the yard job switching auto-parts boxcars with the huge Chrysler Plant looming in the background.
GWWR 2037, originally a Penn Central GP38, and one of only two locomotives left in Gateway Western's paint scheme, rests at the E. St. Louis facilities and is slated to go out on the MESKC. Canon ... (more)
The Beer Railroad: The Elusive 253 Digging through old photos, it wasn't often that MRS 253 was spotted in the wild. It was rebuilt by Morrison-Knudson in 1978 from MRS ALCO S-2, #208. Alth... (more)
Inching ever closer to the end of the day, MTRKS 08 blasts through Tuxedo Park, with a pair of SD60M's, on its Westbound journey across Missouri. Canon 350D, 28-80mm.
The locomotives from the Cuba turn run light down towards Valley Park.
ALCo's In The Desert: Getting close to home, run time over the 38 mile shortline is about an hour and a half with a track speed of 25 MPH. The train comes over a short grade, no match for A... (more)
On a crisp fall morning, 490 eases across Lyndale Ave at about 5 mph after getting the light at Humboldt East. They've just made their pickup at Humboldt yard, and will take the train down the BN ... (more)
A full moon rises in the early evening hours, and clear block greets us at Chaffee, as we highball East toward St. Louis. Canon 350D.
As the DPU of CCFCSH 10 clears, it reveals a terminal crew waiting for a signal into Valley. They will then go switch Afton Chemical.
This coal train stretches out behind a cream and green AC at it flies through rural crossings on the K Line. Canon 350D, 75-300mm.
A 5-unit set of BNSF power backs into the TRRA yard, the consist included an SD40u, SD9, SD39, and a pair of GE Dash 9's.. Canon 350D.
This UP grain train heads north on the Springfield Sub, more than likely, this train will head up the Pekin, IL where a Chicago crew will get on. Here it comes under the Poplar Street Bridge Compl... (more)
