UP 7249 waits to head South thru Valley Junction onto the UP Chester Sub with a coal train

Westbound freight

Easrbound coal train

This winged DASH 8 bursts into a section of sunlight as it comes off TRRA's Illinois Transfer District and through Valley Jct. to reach UP's Cotton Belt yard. Note the stainless steel commemorativ... (more)

The A&S' only two road switchers are on the point of a northbound terminal train with a trailing EMDX SD60. This train was shot from the Poplar Street Bridge over the Mississippi River. Canon 350D... (more)

A former SP tunnel motor leads this UP pig train as it snakes under the Poplar Street Bridge in the heart of the ghetto. Canon 350D, 28-80mm.

UP 9380 heads South thru Valley Junction onto the UP Chester Sub

KCS' secret stash of SD90's: tucked away in the Cotton Belt yard, which UP shares with KCS, sits a string of approx. 8 SD90MAC-H II's, still in UP reporting marks. It is unknown what will happen t... (more)

Interesting what the KCS is resorting to for power these days :). I found this heap sitting at the E. St. Louis facilities. Canon 350D, 28-80mm.

Southbound coal train heading to Valley junction and the UP Chester Sub

This GP50 was tamed, having it's 3,500hp brute of a 645F reduced to a docile 2,000hp, making it a GP38. NS did this to a lot of GP50's, filling its need for low HP road switchers. Canon 350D, 75-3... (more)

TRRA runs a manifest train, with a nice lash up of power, down the Illinois Transfer and will then run through Afton chemical. Canon 350D, 28-80mm.

After throwing a switch, the conductor will give a signal, and the engineer will reverse this pair of SD40-2's back into the yard. These are the resident hump engines at Gateway. Canon 350D, 75-30... (more)

One of the A&S' several SW1500's, paired with a former SP 1500, goes to work shoving its cut back into the yard after a long poke . Canon 350D, 28-80mm.