A west bound stack train passes under an ATSF era signal bridge just east of Marceline. Interesting to note that the rails here were laid in April 1957.

Westbound on the Transcon, this new ET44C4 is passing under Highway 36 approaching Marceline, Missouri.

Southbound at Harris Road on the Chester Sub on a chilly morning. It looks like the crew has cleaned the front of the locomotive with their jackets.

Northbound at Colton, Utah headed for Soldier Summit.

The detector said this southbound train was doing 69 mph as it approached Fountain, Illinois. It ended up out-running the ability of my camera to focus on such a fast moving object, resulting in ... (more)

A high priority stack train speeding south at Valmeyer on the Chester Sub.

A new ET44AC comes around the bend into the sun near Valmeyer on the Chester Sub.

In the last hour of sunlight I caught this southbounder near Lake Moredock on the UP Chester Sub. The crew must have thought I was crazy standing on top of that gravel pile.

A west bound grainer at first light on the Hannibal Sub. It was a cold and damp morning, producing a lot of fog in the river bottoms.

A nice looking manifest train makes its way past one of the elevated signal sheds on the Hannibal Sub.

Southbound at Ziebold Road on the UP Chester Sub.

H-MEMGAL (Memphis to Galesburg) moves east on the Hannibal Subdivision. This is in the flood plain in the land between the Mississippi River and Missouri River.

A southbound stack train at Kk Road near Valmeyer, Illinois.

First light catch of a west bound coal train in the river bottoms northwest of St. Louis.

This fast-moving UP stack train is headed west on the BNSF Marceline sub in northern Missouri.