A westbound stack train rolls past Kirkwood station on a beautiful 4th of July. Happy Birthday America! Canon 350D.

A 70MAC follows coal loads into the balloon track at the Ameren UE Portage Des Sioux power plant. Canon 350D, 28-80mm.

Two CSX GE's, the second one being very smokey, bask themselves in artificial light on a warm summer night.

Southbound coal drag CSMIMH 23 sits crewless at Airflight Rd., just south of Valley Jct., and not even 2 miles into the Chester Sub.

Not So Big Now, Are Ya?: Most photos of the Big Boy do a great job of showing just how massive the locomotive is. I wanted to do just the opposite here; the Sandstone bridge is an impressiv... (more)

Another southbound storms past at MP 13.3, just out of view, behind those ugly GEs, is a rare BN "white-face" GP40-2 beauty.

Yet another coal drag crawls up "The Hill" at 5 mph this morning, with an "almost clean" AC4400CW on the point.

ALCO Safari Day 7, Delaware Lackawanna: After putting their power together PO74 pulls up to Ridge Row with a cut of center beams and grain loads, and will have to build the remainder of the... (more)

Later in the still scorching day, BNSf 9883 patiently waits for a new crew at the hand-thrown crossover at Kingshighway.

A meriad of KCS yard power and road power congregates at the former GWWR facilities located near Valley Jct.

In the late afternoon, a SD40-2, and a pumpkin GP60M lead a southbound manifest towards the signal at MP 12.5, known as "Alpha."

Here coal train CBTMR9 07 bound for the DeSoto Sub runs through industrial South St. Louis on horrible track, speed here is 10 MPH.

Brute AC Power: A trio of SD70MACs smoke it up, while lugging a 8,000 ton coal train up the hill on the BNSF River Sub. If you wondered what I shoot with . . . I use a H-P Photosmart 945. This sho... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 7, Delaware Lackawanna: Back to the Pocono summit now at Mt. Pocono, PO75 comes underneath the Fairview bridge with a their empty center beams from Cresco. Although not very... (more)

There's just something about the trees at Wickes that makes the location scenic. Here we wait at Wickes siding for the LSH08 to finish making its setout at Riverside. Canon 350D.