Early on Thanksgiving morning this veteran UP SD60 with its train sits just north of the tower while a coal train prepares to depart behind it.

After slowing for the restrictive signal, this empty slowly drifts down the steep grade to Byers. He will end up having to wait for another southbound before leaving.

The DPU of this northbound empty Rush Island coal train emerges from a rock cut and snakes down grade towards Byers.

The power and cars from the local sit in BNSF's small Crystal City yard along with two cabooses, BN 12304 is visible in the background.

This crew rushes to get their train put together under the increasingly threatening sky. They would finish their work just as the severe weather came through.

A sickly GE (literally, this thing sounded like a Toyota running on two cylinders) and a SD70M are on the point of this short manifest (18x16) waiting for a signal out of Dupo.

Two old DASH 8's sit the evening out at Dupo while high cirrus clouds streak across the sky above.

In a scene that hasn't changed much in 30 years, the rear brakeman waits for another brakeman to cut-in the air to the caboose so he can signal the engineer to proceed down the lead. This is a 4-m... (more)

Two UP SD40-2's are illuminated by the early morning sun as they blast through a bank of fog after getting a signal into Dupo. Train was ALDAS 19.

KCS switching a small chemical operation by their E. St. Louis engine facilities.

Dwarf signals protect the beginning of the T.R.R.A.'s highline under the arch, while a UP manifest waits for a signal over the T.R.R.A.'s MacArthur Bridge.

Fixing a minor rail defect at night is quite a show, here a UP MOW worker grinds down the fresh steel to rail head-level. This type of operation causes many small fires in the process.

A winged warrior snakes it's way down through Valley Jct. as it heads towards the old Southern Pacific yard.

This former Mo-Pac SD40-2 and another 40 series sister hold down this T.R.R.A. freight by the well known St. Louis favorite: P.T.'s Sports Cabaret.

A Short KCS train of about 12 cars or so heads out of their E. St. Louis yard, through the diamonds at Valley Jct., and onto Track 1 of the UP Springfield Sub. These KCS GP40-2W's have a look all ... (more)