I'll post this photo, not because it's the best photo ever, but because it tells a story. This is the BNSF Transcon just outside of the BNSF Logistics Park yard. Main 1 and Main 2 are on the lef... (more)
BNSF 7428 is glowing in the morning sun crossing Peruque Creek.
A pair of 60-year-old locomotives still active at Alton Steel in Alton, Illinois. GTW 4614 is a GP9R built in 1957. Gulf Coast Rail Services 1236 is an ex-Terminal Railroad of Saint Louis SW1200... (more)
A lengthy grain train skirts along the Missouri River near West Alton, Missouri.
A southbound UP manifest passing in front of the Mississippi River bluffs on the UP Chester Sub near Fult, Illinois. I'm sure I appreciated an unpatched Southern Pacific locomotive back then, but... (more)
Saint Louis Car Company 2024 (a 70 year old SW8) at Niedringhaus in Granite City, Illinois.
A Terminal Railroad GP40M-3 and slug are seen sorting cars at the south end of the TRRA yard at Madison, Illinois.
Port Harbor 2758 sits waiting for work. This is an ex UP/CNW locomotive.
A Port Harbor MP15DC sits with a short string of cars at the port in Granite City
An empty Herzog ballast train passes a dead coal train with a BNSF 25th Anniversary locomotive leader in the West Alton siding.
A rare stack train on the Hannibal Sub near O'Fallon, Missouri.
A Terminal Railroad GP40M-3 and slug are shuffling cars at the south end of the TRRA yard in Madison, Illinois.
A Respondek SD40-2 painted in Illini Terminal colors sits at the port in Granite City, Illinois.
Two sets of Terminal Railroad power are seen sorting cars at the south end of the Madison yard. A GP40M-3 with a slug and a pair of SD60Is.
UP 2204 is shuffling cars at the south end of the Terminal Railroad yard in Madison. The blue locomotives in the consist are newly rebuilt SD70M locomotives for the Lake State Railway in Saginaw,... (more)