A unit train is pulling up to swap crews at Baden, passing the front yards of Antelope Street. This block of houses has quite the front porch view of rail activity, although only a handful of trai... (more)

An empty UP oil train comes through Kirkwood, MO, deviating from its normal route taking it to Alton & Southern Railway, and eventually BNSF at Mitchell, IL.

The City of Kirkwood is putting up signs along the tracks warning people to keep off. Rumor has it that a fence will also be put in the foreground of this shot.

An Alton & Southern crew takes an empty oil train to Mitchell, IL to interchange to the BNSF. This train came off the Union Pacific at East Saint Louis, IL.

A southbound Bakken oil train zooms by Wagon Wheel Road, a few miles from Lenox Tower, where it will hand over to the Alton & Southern Railway.

TRRA's Madison Turn heads west on BNSF rails as it nears its destination of Lindenwood Yard in the last rays of daylight.

Lit by a few sodium lights and the first minutes of dawn, this BNSF train bound for Galesburg makes its way through downtown Saint Louis. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge is just to the left, li... (more)

After the crew has just left the train, 431 sits at Pontoon Road, waiting a few hours before it heads north later in the afternoon.

A loaded UP coal train comes over the MacArthur Bridge, about to turn south to Dupo, IL.

Now those are some front yards with a view! An empty BNSF train snakes its way down Antelope Street in north Saint Louis on its way to the Hannibal Sub. Those are the front porches of the houses s... (more)

The Jeff City local made an unscheduled stop at the Kirkwood depot after a confused driver stopped on the tracks when the crossing lights started flashing. Thankfully the train was not going fast ... (more)

MCHPB 29 pokes its nose out of the short tunnel at Hole In The Wall. The location is named simply because there is a hole in the wall, the wall being the approach for TRRA's MacArthur Bridge over ... (more)

AEGAS 28 makes its way northward at the first light of day surrounded by the recent snowfall in the Saint Louis area.

MCHPB 29 has a pair of CSX motors this day, and is about ready to make the turn onto the Chester Sub for the final five miles of its journey with this crew.

A loaded UP oil train leans into the curve in Valmeyer, IL behind a trio of elephant style BNSF units. This train originated on the BNSF in Stanley, ND, and was brought to Mitchell, IL for interch... (more)