A large pile of freshly removed rail sits along UP's Jeff City Sub after a bit of track maintenance.
Fall is in full swing in the hills around Pacific, MO, as this coal empty heads west on track 1 of UP's Jeff City Sub. Along side is old U.S. 66.
A classy Rio Grande GP30 switches corn syrup cars out of a 7 UP bottling plant near Overland, MO
Another guy taking pics pulled up in his 2010 R/T Classic, so we decided to shoot it as this UP coal train headed by. The GEs in the background take the prize for horsepower, but you can bet the c... (more)
New Madrid coal empties lean into the curve just west of the Kirkwood depot and have just started their descent downhill for several miles. Most of the day was overcast, but a short afternoon repr... (more)
I miss the days of the Southern Pacific assortment of battered six axles topping Kirkwood Hill with all their might, sometimes at just a few miles per hour. This particular train had no trouble ma... (more)
RRC 3086, temporarily dressed as ITC 2301, sits under a full moon on a warm spring night
The once in a while Herrington, KS to Alton & Southern Railway manifest is seen here at Kirkwood, MO, after having to stop a mile and half west of here at Geyer Road for a railroad tie placed on t... (more)
A trio of A&S units returns from a transfer run to Saint Louis, with TASD 802 in tow.
A half dozen KCSM units head through Q Tower not long after KCS first got a hold of them a short time before.
NS 111 chugs east through a fairly late snow for Saint Louis, going through a sag over Maline Creek.
Two switchers tend to duties on a windy track under a beautiful Saturday afternoon sky.
NS's Wabash and Illinois Terminal locomotives sit on one end of the train, while the NKP steam engine sits at the other end, in preparation for Saturday and Sunday employee excursions.
A TRRA job takes a short train down the Illinois Transfer, through Valley Junction, and eventually into Sauget, IL.
TRRA Madison Turn makes its way along the elevated track on the north side of downtown Saint Louis, past the now defunct and vacated President Casino.