A hot intermodal blasts around the curve on National Train Day!

After dropping off cars and moving around cars at the Silica Sand Plant the power for UP Jeff City Sub Local LSE59 06 heads back to its train occupying main one on the Jeff City Sub.

Shooting back west towards Kansas city, Amtrak Train #313 is making track speed with #66 leading the way.

Rolling west through Pacific Missouri is BNSF Train M-STLTUL1 06A with a five pack of BNSF GE's, the second of which is a Warbonnet Dash 9, BNSF 689.

UP train OSJTC 04 rolls West down the Union Pacific's Jeff City Sub with a BNSF SD75M in the lead and a UP C40-8 3rd out. The train is seen splitting the signals at Dozier, which is located betwee... (more)

A former Oakway now CN SD60 leads SGFHU 12 an empty windmill train west down the Jeff City Sub. This shot was almost not, with the back end of a stack train seen in the far right of the frame and ... (more)

A westbound empty coal train speeds through Pacific Missouri on a gorgeous afternoon in late November.

Union Pacific Autorack Train AASAM-20 Rockets West down the Jeff City Sub through Pacific MO.

Not as cool as NS 1070, but HLCX 1070 still looks pretty good with it's new maroon & black coat of paint on UP train LSE59 aka (The Pacific Turn) local heading east at Pacific Missouri on Union Pa... (more)

With the sun approaching the horizon, UP auto train AASAM, one of the only trains running on the east end of the Jefferson City Subdivision on this unusually slow evening, sprints westward behind ... (more)

UP 2053 Through Pacific working the rock plant in Pacific.

Interesting ACes. Nearly new Union Pacific SD70ACe #8723, serving as the DPU on ZSEMN 19, glides past the Missouri Pacific heritage unit at Pacific, MO. UP 1982 was on display for the town'... (more)

Heritage Glint. In the last few moments of sunlight, intermodal train ZSEMN 07 enters the western edge of the St. Louis suburbs with the WP heritage unit in the lead.

Wings. A westbound UP coal flies through Pacific near sunset, while UP 1982 sits on display nearby. Notice the two different forms of winged logos on the fronts of these engines.

Colorful EMDs. Auto train AASAM 22 rushes through Pacific with a standard SD70M leading and an FXE ACe trailing. The Mopac heritage unit is parked on the siding for Pacific's Railroad Days,... (more)