Amtrak's famed "Pointless Arrow" heritage unit #156 cruses westbound into Kirkwood for its station stop. Bringing up the rear is Frisco sleeper Cimarron River.

A clean DPU helps hold back loads of coal that are passing over the summit of Kirkwood Hill. Railfans are congregated at Kirkwood's historic depot to watch the train's passage.

A southbound UP manifest throttles up after meeting a northbound autorack train just north of the village of Fults, IL. As far as yellow UP widecabs go, this Dash 8 and SD60M pair is about as inte... (more)

Two gray Kansas City Southern GEs lead a grain train on Kansas City Terminal trackage by Union Station. The famous Western Auto sign rises in the background. Taken from the Freight House Bridge.

Railroad Street. Almost every town has one. This unassuming street sign leading to a small gravel road doesn't look like much, and perhaps it isn't much, but it shows off the importance tha... (more)

The Monett Turn's 5 Alco Centuries drift downgrade through a small rock cut in the tiny town of Garfield, AR.

Former Canadian Pacific 8166, now a member of Respondek RR Corporation's eclectic fleet, takes a break from its duties on the Port Harbor Railroad.

Five Southern Belles, including 3 brand new KCSM ES44ACs, ply the jointed rails of the Roodhouse Subdivision at 50 mph as they make their way towards Kansas City.

Wabash painted NS 1070 trails a BNSF ACe on a southbound loaded taconite ore train about 55 miles north of St. Louis on BNSF's Hannibal Subdivision.

Brand new UP SD70AH #8949 leads a westbound coal empty through Pacific, MO, with barren, leafless trees blanketing the hills in the background. Southern Pacific painted AC4400CWs served as both th... (more)

The Western Pacific heritage unit leads a Marion, AR, bound intermodal train through another town called Marion, though this one is in Missouri. In just a few minutes, the WP would pull up to the ... (more)

The fall colors are a week away from peak as a loaded UP ballast train skirts the eastern bluffs of the mighty Mississippi River at Harris Road, south of Valmeyer, IL.

A glimpse into the past. "Old" Valmeyer, IL, was once a quaint small town two miles from the east bank of the mighty Mississippi River. In 1993, the Mississippi flooded its banks in one of ... (more)

A crossing gate protects lonely Steppig Road as UP 6442 rumbles through with a northbound coal train.

The day is almost over as a GE convertible shoves a loaded coal train over the Meramec River at Sherman Beach Park.