Texas Special. With a large star adorning its nose, the Katy heritage unit does its best impersonation of the joint MKT/Frisco Texas Special as it rests with UP 1982 on the eve of Na... (more)

UP 844 is rolling high above East St. Louis on the TRRA's MacArthur Bridge Approach with the Little Rock Express heritage tour. The train will soon arrive in Valley Junction.

IC GP11 8733 pulls a passenger train south to downtown Monticello late in the day.

UP 6499 brings up the rear of CIMNA9 28 as the residual effects of a colorful sunset drape across the southern Illinois sky.

It's hard to believe that this engine will be performing at another Trainfestival in another couple of weeks, albeit the 2011 version. NKP 765 leads its excursion train back towards Owosso on the ... (more)

Plutonium rides the rails.A special plutonium shipment, riding as NS train O57, has just departed the west end of Moberly after a quick crew change and meet with an eastbound autorack train... (more)

UP's Salt Lake City Olympic Torch Relay unit, UP 2002, leads a North Platte bound manifest across the scenic Meramec River. Seeing the blue unit poke out from behind the bushes was definitely a ni... (more)

Rounding the famed Helmstetter's Curve, "Western Maryland" 734 is surrounded by color as it lugs a long fall foliage excursion out of Cumberland, MD.

Nickel Plate Road 765 trails an employee excursion over the high Missouri River Bridge in St. Charles, MO. The Wabash and IT heritage units are on the other end. Even though the TravelMaster is a ... (more)

Better than fireworks. Who would have thought that not one, but two EJ&E engines would find their way down to Du Quoin, IL? Here, they are backing down to the wye that will take them north ... (more)

A Conrail GE and a pair of SD60s smoke it up as they drag race a car eastbound out of Moberly Yard.

The Savannah and Atlanta and Conrail heritage units (NS 1065 and 8098, respectively) head for Luther Yard in North St. Louis for servicing. In a few hours, they will return to their coal train and... (more)

Nickle Plate 765 puts on a great show accelerating away from an impromptu stop in the rural town of Atkinson. The excursion, with Amtrak heritage P42s 156 and 66 and a string of Milwaukee Road pas... (more)

Bright green RRC 4139 rests in Respondek's Boonville, IN, yard while a pair of old SD9s, one still in AWW paint, take in the action. Thanks for the great day Terry!

1/3 of UP's heritage fleet congregates at Maplewood, MO, as the Rio Grande unit, serving as the DPU on Dupo, IL, bound intermodal KLBDU 20, meets the WP unit resting on the point of coal train CBT... (more)