Not many EMC/EMD FT diesels, which pretty much were the locomotive that killed steam, were preserved – just two FTA units and three FTBs, although these Bs had been converted to Steam Heater Car... (more)

A steam double header was operated from downtown St. Louis to the Museum of Transport to drop off SLSF 1522. However, the train had to wait for a stalled freight train to clear before the steam l... (more)

The St. Louis to Denver train 11, the 'Colorado Eagle" with MoPac's E8A 7018 and E7A 7010, sweeps into town westbound with twelve blue and gray cars to pick up passengers at the Kirkwood,M... (more)

Norfolk and Western locomotive 2156, Class Y6a, a compound Mallet, sits on display at the Museum's first night photography event. This locomotive was loaned to the Virginia Museum of Transporta... (more)

On its trip back west, the Big Boy 2021 Tour makes a stop in Kirkwood, Missouri in front of the iconic ex-Missouri Pacific passenger depot.

IDTX 4605 departs Kirkwood with the eastbound River Runner.

UP 2550 leads a ballast train east through Kirkwood.

Amtrak River Runner #314 at the iconic Missouri Pacific Station in Kirkwood, MO.

UP GP38-2 708 leads a local east through Kirkwood.

EL SD45 3607 sits on display at NMOT in Kirkwood.

A bridge made for railfans! South Clay Avenue in Kirkwood, Missouri is our vantage point on October 28, 2011 as Union Pacific Railroad 6716 (AC44CW, ex-Chicago & Northwestern [CNW] 8814) heads wes... (more)

BNSF 6860 has a 12,897 foot, 202 car, Madison Illinois to Tulsa Oklahoma manifest well in hand as they pass mile post 14.6 on the BNSF Cuba subdivison. The train is currently passing over intersta... (more)

Westbound Union Pacific manifest MINKS-12 rolls through Kirkwood and past the town's former MoPac passanger station.

The afternoon westbound Missouri River Runner pulls away from the former Missouri Pacific depot in downtown Kirkwood.

A humbling, and unreal site was on hand as we get a good look at one of the two surviving big New York Central Steam Locomotives. NYC 2933 is the only surviving L-2d Type Heavy Mountain built by t... (more)