A NS merchandise train stis at 25th street in Granite City while waiting for a signal at WR Tower.

This set of T.R.R.A.'s big power drags a train length cut of cars out of the yard and up onto the bridge over Rt. 3. TRRA 2205 is a road slug built from a GP35.

A KCS Slug set sits under the sanding tower at their former GWWR facilities in E. St. Louis. The white slug is a relic from the KCS of past years.

UP rack train AMXASB 06 gets permission from the A&S yardmaster to make a poke out of Gateway Yard, with the landmark Arch in the background. The St. Louis Arch is 40 years old this year, 1965-200... (more)

This CSX manifest, Q333 09, rolls through Collinsville, IL, and past the worlds largest catsup bottle, both a national and Illinois landmark, and a St. Louis original.

Late in the evening, grain train GECCRB 04 with UP and CN power sits in Dupo yard while the first quarter moon slowly sets behind it.

UP runs light power including an IC SD40R, down the chester Sub from the A&S to their Dupo yard.

The NS's Federal Puller, with two accessorized GP38's, sits crewless on former Illinois Terminal trackage at Pontoon Road, just out side of A.O. Smith yard.

Hot on the tail of the tail of three previous trains, CSX L111 becomes the fourth train in 45 minutes as it passes through Caseyville Park.

QASLIX 07 highballs southbound at sunset, while dark clouds slowly creep in in the background.

The fall colors are slowly starting to disappear as this UP coal drag "stops on approach" at Pacific. Those massive holes in the bluffs are not caves, but rather are the result of Limestone mining... (more)

Power from the YDU50 sits by quietly, a very smoky NS GE (what's new?) "Baby B-Boat" sits not far away while waiting to be picked up.

This CSX SD40-2, turns directly into the setting sun after getting permission from the dispatcher to pass a stop indication on a malfunctioning signal at W. Valley Park.

Two old birds lead a lengthy stack train on a windy evening, they are waiting for a signal to continue north.

The Cuba Local, doing about 40 per, rounds the curve at Pacific where the tracks begin to head south. In about a mile the local will stop to switch a local warehouse.