This BNSF train comes off the T.R.R.A.'s Highline and snakes down the yard lead. It will soon reach Grand Ave. interlocking and return to its home rails.
Late in the afternoon, a warbonnet leads two rent-a-wreck tunnel motors across Laclede's Landing, past the old Union Light power plant, and the President Casino.
A UP SD70M is in charge of this special move, SGNCO 08, including a brand new SD70ACe (UP 8423) under the tarp, and a Wisconsin & Southern business car. I believe this is the unit painted for Geor... (more)
A solid, four-unit lash up of bright red terminal SW1500's accellerates after passing through a large chemical facility, and they will soon couple to a massive cut of grain cars.
Two BNSF locomotives, borrowed by the terminal, pull a string of the Manny's home-road boxcars into their yard for interchange.
Terminal has shown up to the Manny today with a set of borrowed BNSF motors. Regular power on this run is the switchers, like the one in the background.
A freshly painted Terminal switcher sits with a former UP SW10. They are bracketing an interesting car, though I have no idea what it is.
This is the Tropicana Juice Train, KCIAT 24, it has been rerouted through St. Louis as a result of Katrina. Interestingly, the juice train doesn't seem to be carrying much juice today.
Two Norfolk Southern locomotives take a break in the yard on QSPTR 28. It wouldn't be until tomorrow afternoon that this train would finally leave.
Harvested corn fields signal the beginning of fall, a brand new ES44AC rolls through the freshly harvested landscape with southbound coal train CCAIM9 26.
I didn't realize that Union Pacific had decided to paint their locomotives BROWN . . .
UP ballast train WBTIMB 28, headed for Iron Mountain, MO, swings off the MacArthur Bridge and onto the south approach that will carry it into Lesperance St. Yard.
Nice set of old school power at Valley Jct on train EASMN 29. The snoot SD40-2 was a nice suprise too.
As twilight comes to an end, and the night slowly creeps in, this UP stack train roars past AKBASX 25 just outside of Dupo, IL.
This UP manifest, MPIPB 27, is rolling over the Fountain bridge late in the day, it is slowing down for a yellow signal.
