This smoky slow moving train was led by a BNSF Dash 9, followed by a CN C40-8M.

H-MEMGAL passing through flooded fields near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

HMEMGAL (Memphis to Galesburg) pulls up and stops to drop off a bad car at West Alton. The MEMGAL is always a good sized nice looking train. It's even better when she pulls up and stops right in... (more)

There were four new sequentially numbered locomotives, two on the front and two in the rear, on this NS train headed east on the BNSF Hannibal Sub.

In the orange light just after dawn, this manifest freight is making its way toward a Missouri River crossing and eventually to downtown St. Louis.

Elevated tracks and equipment sheds are required in this flood prone area near the Mississippi River at West Alton.

This short local train is moving across the flood plain near West Alton, Missouri on the BNSF Hannibal Sub.

Another AC locomotive hauling coal across the flood plain. In this shot you can see the huge stack of old ties piled up outside West Alton.

A faded and beat up Warbonnet trots across the Missouri River on a gloomy March afternoon on BNSF's K-Line.

Plenty of photo props abound at the east end of West Alton Siding, which is actually the west end. Confused?

Even the rapid murky current of the flooding Missouri River won't stop BNSF 613 from dragging the daily West Quincy, MO to North St. Louis, MO hauler through West Alton.

Two BNSF GE's drag the North St. Louis to West Quincy long travel local through the town of West Alton, passing a farm... With a healthy crop of dirt.

BNSF 1091 shoves back 20 feet to make the joint at E. West Alton after setting out a dozen cars.

Dirt grows here. Two GE's schlep an empty coal train around the corner at West Alton, passing one of the many dirt fields...