Santa Fe is coming to town. After coming through the St. Louis area two days before Christmas under cloud cover, former ATSF warbonnet #900 is back in town the day after Christmas with sunn... (more)

With a heavy snow storm well under way, a Dash 9 and a Dash 8 from BNSF and CSX, respectively, pull an empty unit gondola train upgrade through Kirkwood, MO. This move originated in Avard, OK, whe... (more)

Headed for interchange with CSX, FEC ES44C4s 806 and 809 trail a KCS Southern Belle SW1500 on transfer freight YVN112. Sitting isolated in the background is the former road approach to the MacArth... (more)

Sunshine on a Cloudy Day. Ever since Florida East Coast brought back their "Champion" paint scheme, I have always wanted to see a champ with a KCS Southern Belle. I finally got my wish toda... (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.

A nifty trio of foreign locomotives leads a northbound UP Texarkana to Gateway Yard quality manifest through Valmeyer, IL. The BCOL C40-8M and Canadian National SD60F cowls in the trailing positio... (more)

A CSX ballast train departs Cumberland Terminal and snakes through the crossovers at Mexico Tower. The tower itself and the CPL signals that have guarded this spot for decades are still standing a... (more)

As blue hour falls on a snowy landscape, UP 7325 and a KCS belle move east with a loaded coal train at Allenton, MO. The first snowstorm of the season had just moved through leaving a generous coa... (more)

An empty BNSF contaminated dirt train grinds uphill at Quinette Road during the St. Louis metro area's first snowstorm of the season.

Illinoisan. After meeting eastbound counterpart train 223, westbound intermodal 224 throttles up at New Baden, IL, with the Virginian heritage unit out front.

Ready for the big move. NW Y6a #2156 rests out its final week at the Museum of Transportation on a beautiful fall morning. Sometime very soon, it will depart the museum for a long trip to t... (more)

With the former SSW freight station towering above, unpatched SP 107 and a CSX SD60M lead detoured UP manifest MHOKC 22 down the TRRA's Merchants Subdivision after it was forced to bypass the pref... (more)

An eclectic mix of both preserved and active rail equipment congregates at the Museum of Transportation after being displayed for the "Go by Train" event held the previous day. From left... (more)

Heat distortion fills the air as a hard working CN SD70M-2 leads southbound UP autorack train ASMAR 04 under the Mopac-era signal bridge at Wolf Lake, IL.

The original NS heritage unit and a Citirail ES44AC, CREX 1314, lead rerouted UP manifest MHOKC 18 through Kirkwood, MO, on a beautiful late summer afternoon. Less than 5 minutes after this shot w... (more)