Hotshot Z-Train from Yard Center to Mesquite Texas passes thru the St. Louis area at Q Tower.

This former EMD demo unit has been on the KCS for quite some time.It is seen here resting at East St. Louis.

One of the few remaining Gateway Western units left on the KCS is seen resting at East St. Louis.

Two UP units on NS 167 running on the TRRA Illinois Transfer

Engineer Sellers bringing back traffic picked up from CSX at Rose Lake Yard.The lumber empties were picked up from O'Neil Lumber,the stacks will head to Kansas City on tonights MVNKC junk train.

Grain loads heading south thru Q Tower in East St. Louis.

5 Helm Leasing units stored at KCS East St. Louis Yard.Between these and about 15 KCS units stored here,East St. Louis can get pretty depressing.

I was wandering around the scenic East St. Louis area when I came across this UP U30C headed for the scrap yard, minus its prime mover.

After going into emergency for no apparent reason, and then having the crew go dead on hours, this train of empty coal cars finally makes the turn through Valley Junction from the UP Chester Sub o... (more)

Taken from the Missouri side of the Mississippi River; 6630 looks rather minuscule below the giant power line tower.

Just after crossing the Mississippi River from St. Louis, this coal train waits at the end of the TRRA Macarthur Bridge East Approach to proceed through Valley Junction and onto the UP Chester Sub... (more)

Coal empties glide up the east approach to the Macarthur Bridge toward St. Louis as intermodal ILADU waits to come through Valley Junction on a hot July afternoon.

UP has been sending many SD40-2 & SD-50 to MEI in East St. Louis for stripping and scrapping.Here outside the gates sits SD-50 #9881 and a line of SD40-2.

Coal empties entering the UP Springfield Sub at Valley Jct.This train is headed north towards WR Tower where it will gain KCS tracks for the run to Kansas City.UP is detouring a few coal empties a... (more)