Budd and EMD teamed up in 1939 to built the Silver Charger, which was part of the Burlington's General Pershing Zephyr trainset which ran from Kansas City to St. Louis. It was the last of the sho... (more)
USRA light Mikado 551 is the only surviving steam locomotive from the Chicago & Illinois Midland. It was donated in 1955 to the Museum of Transport in Kirkwood, Missouri, where it remains on stat... (more)
WB Stacker. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.
Missouri Pacific 4602 is at the headend of a trio of RS-11s running westbound through Kirkwood, Missouri on August 14, 1960. After purchasing something near a legion of GP7's and GP9's the order... (more)
A precursor to a future merger with MoPac unit leading UP pool power.
Amtrak Train #31, the westbound National Limited, arrives at the iconic Kirkwood Depot.
An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.
Not many EMC/EMD FT diesels, which pretty much were the locomotive that killed steam, were preserved – just two FTA units and three FTBs, although these Bs had been converted to Steam Heater Car... (more)
A steam double header was operated from downtown St. Louis to the Museum of Transport to drop off SLSF 1522. However, the train had to wait for a stalled freight train to clear before the steam l... (more)
The St. Louis to Denver train 11, the 'Colorado Eagle" with MoPac's E8A 7018 and E7A 7010, sweeps into town westbound with twelve blue and gray cars to pick up passengers at the Kirkwood,M... (more)
Norfolk and Western locomotive 2156, Class Y6a, a compound Mallet, sits on display at the Museum's first night photography event. This locomotive was loaned to the Virginia Museum of Transporta... (more)
On its trip back west, the Big Boy 2021 Tour makes a stop in Kirkwood, Missouri in front of the iconic ex-Missouri Pacific passenger depot.
IDTX 4605 departs Kirkwood with the eastbound River Runner.
UP 2550 leads a ballast train east through Kirkwood.
Amtrak River Runner #314 at the iconic Missouri Pacific Station in Kirkwood, MO.
