Here, doing 50 mph, BNSF 1042 cuts diagonally across W. Pacific Street and 4th Street as it flies through the out skirts of Pacific, MO.
This manifest cruises out of Eureka at about 45 mph, it has an approach-limited at Allenton, and will be meeting an eastbound at Pacific.
Big Blue sits on the point of an outbound BNSF trackage rights train on the Missouri & Valley Park.The train is returning empty after delivering auto parts to the Diamler-Chrysler Plant in Valley ... (more)
A west bound BNSF manifest rolls through East Valley Park, this is the end of ABS and the beginning of CTC for this train.
Two leased M&VP locos slowly back their cars of truck chassis around a sharp and poorly maintained (as evidenced by the locomotive) curve to turn the train on a wye, this allows the cars to be bac... (more)
The crew of MASNP 18 climbs back abord their power after preforming a special chore. One of the containers on the train ahead of it had an open door flapping in the wind, they were asked by the di... (more)
Another UP coal train, CCTBT 16, rolls through Tuxedo Park slowly as to do a run-by of the passing rack train.
The crew of MASNP 18 throttles up after getting permission from the dispatcher to pass the stop indication at control point D007.
Now this is the way an intermodal should look, with a pair of SD40-2s up-front! Interestingly enough, BNSF 7310 was originally CN 5165, built by GMD in Feb. '71 as a SD40 (BN. A2424). It was then ... (more)
Three Terminal SW1500's struggle with a train-length cut of just over 60 cars at the west end of the downtown yard. Today was absolutely sweltering, you start to feel sorry for these guys being in... (more)
The engineer on the LSE59 08 throttles up his ex. MoPac Geep 38 and his ex. SP B23-7 today, this as he is riding the tail of CWEPAH 05 into St. Louis.
Who is this guy, brazen enough to hang out the window? Oh, just a friend of mine, here he rolls through Lake Jct. This is where the original MoPac line splits off for a 1 mile run where it now end... (more)
The fog begins to surround UP 1983 on IDULA 10, about half-an-hour before its departure on its first freight run.
UP train MTRPB 10 with CSX power comes off Terminal trackage at Valley Jct. and will travel the Chester Sub down to Dupo.
Ummmm . . . . just a little bit of a tight clearance. Could they have planted the tree closer? Honestly. Train was CBTMR9 07.
