This UP empty coal drag, CCSBT 23, puts on a good smoke show while accelerating out of Grand Ave., and who says you cant find trains on Thanksgiving?

Local power for the Crystal City Local lately is this EMDX Geep 38, which still looks good in its blue-and-white while sitting on the yard lead to the BNSF's tiny Crystal City yard. Canon 350D. 75... (more)

A good ole snoot is leading this mismatched lashup which also included a former MRL SD40. This train was just north of the yard tower.

Arkansas & Missouri Revisited: I had made the trip to the A&M back in 2013 when I (and everyone else) found out they would be receiving EMD SD70ACe's for use on the road trains. I knew I ha... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 7, Delaware Lackawanna: Having lifted the outbound mill empties, PO75 starts ahead. The plan is to pull up to clear the mill lead, re line the switch, then pull up to clear ... (more)

A Norfolk Southern SD60 leads a Union Pacific GE past the yard tower in Dupo, IL.

Two leased M&VP locos slowly back their cars of truck chassis around a sharp and poorly maintained (as evidenced by the locomotive) curve to turn the train on a wye, this allows the cars to be bac... (more)

Flashback! One a brutally cold morning (-2F), a pair of cascade green SD60Ms head south at Hoffman on joint track along the bluff.

This is the Tropicana Juice Train, KCIAT 24, it has been rerouted through St. Louis as a result of Katrina. Interestingly, the juice train doesn't seem to be carrying much juice today.

IMNOA 04 with UP 5036 rockets a stacker through Kirkwood, just after the departure of Amtrak 303.

Amtrak train 303 from St. Louis, MO arrives at the Kirkwood station, note the large dent in the side of the locomotive.

Arkansas & Missouri Revisited: I had made the trip to the A&M back in 2013 when I (and everyone else) found out they would be receiving EMD SD70ACe's for use on the road trains. I knew I ha... (more)

After shoving their train in at Dunn, the TC&W runs light power down R5 and will head over to the swamp tracks to get their pick up. The hump has just cleared the lead on R4, and is almost finishe... (more)

The fall colors are slowly starting to disappear as this UP coal drag "stops on approach" at Pacific. Those massive holes in the bluffs are not caves, but rather are the result of Limestone mining... (more)

With all the major work on the Jeff City Sub done, this work train, WJCJCO 21, is picking up what is left.