The largest operating steam engine in the world lays over in St. Louis.

Missouri River Eagle steams into downtown St Louis through the Grand Ave interlocking

UP 3985 waits in the early morning darkness of 10/9/2010 to head west in about eight hours

The 5036 pops through the Eads bridge and is about to enter the tunnel that leads through the Jefferson Expansion Memorial on Saint Louis' riverfront.

The Challenger tied down in St Louis, with the Gateway Arch in the background.

There's no mistaking where we are here! With the world famous St. Louis Arch in the background, UP 3985 slows to a stop west of downtown.

Two GE's ease the MASKC off the MacArthur bridge towards Gratiot with parts of the Saint Louis Skyline and the Gateway Arch making up the background. Hey Pony, my ride is cooler than yours! :-)

I spent today scouting out locations to shoot the UP 3985 "Challenger" when it arrives in St. Louis next week and found this Hampton Avenue overpass at Manchester to be a great spot. Before I lef... (more)

Running on the TRRA's Merchant's Sub., a BNSF ore load heads south for Birmingham, Alabama.

Northbound Union Pacific work train awaiting a new crew in the old Missouri Pacific Ivory Yard, adjacent to the new River City Casino, in beautiful soft early morning light on a hot and muggy fina... (more)

Northbound Amtrak Texas Eagle slips past a Union Pacific work train in the old Missouri Pacific Ivory Yard, adjacent to the new River City Casino, in beautiful soft early morning light on a hot an... (more)

Two of the new GP38-3's recently purchased from Helm Financial, one in the snazzy new TRRA paint scheme and one yet to be painted, switch cars at Bremen Interlocking.

A weather-beaten warbonnet leads this manifest along the Mississippi River in north St. Louis. In the background is the Terminal Railroad Association's Merchants Bridge.

QNLCH 21 passes by the long derelict Cotton Belt freight house, now used mainly as a canvas for subhuman waste products to grace the world with their "art."

Shoving cars into a scrap metal processing plant just after sunrise.