On a hot Mid-Missouri afternoon, the bellow of two GE locomotives working on a eastbound coal drag can be heard from miles around in the Missouri River bottoms near Wooldridge, Mo.
K221 is rolling southbound approaching the "Pusher Shack" in the small hamlet of Morley, TN, behind a matched set of UP 5900 series GEs. CSX keeps a manned helper stationed here to assis... (more)
UP 5902 brings up the rear of an eastbound coal train west of Gothenburg NE. Head end power was UP 5892 & BNSF 9143.
Now that we have nice weather, can finally shoot in the daytime again! Here the engineer on westrbound CMRNA9 17 "kicks it up a notch" while departing St. Louis.
A UP loaded coal train comes across BNSF tracks from the UP main on its way to the CN Memphis Sub headed for a transfer at Florida Street.