Interesting load being tugged around the yard today. A pair of ALCO Blunt type trucks (from the roads once large fleet of ALCO switchers) are pushed back into their resting space on a spur. They a... (more)
MRS #256, and T.R.R.A. #1243 share space in the engine house today. 256 is having some minor work done, while #1243 was just painted for the T.R.R.A.
MRS #257, an SW1500, pulls three empty hoppers out of the beautiful and historic Anheuser-Busch Brewery in St. Louis, MO.
Making the connection: the power for this hot UP intermodal is coupled on and will head north. Train was IMNOA 15.
A newer KCS unit leads this UP intermodal train, ZMQDU 07, down a snowy MacArthur Bridge lead on a cold winter day.
A somewhat ratty looking CSX DASH 8 leads its train through the farmland of the Mississippi River valley at sunset. Train was MASNL 09.
MPIEW 09 is led today by a suprisingly clean ex Connie Q SD60I, it's nice to see something interesting roll through everyonce in a while.
UP coal drag CTSBT 08 heads up the MacArthur Bridge lead.
Southbound coal drag CBTJO 29 meets northbound manifest 2MNLASX 30 just south of Dupo.
UP coal drag CBTJO 29 races southbound.
UP intermodal KOAMN 23, with a block of merchandise, accelerates out of Dupo yard, southbound.
Light power sits as the yard job pulls alongside continuing its work.
Interesting power for the T.R.R.A., an unpatched ATSF GE, and a CSX SD70MAC.
How often do you get to see a SD70M running long hood forward? Even if it is just a light power move.
This train off the DeSoto Sub exits the MacArthur Bridge and heads to Dupo.