Amtrak stoped at Kirkwood waiting for to meet Amtrak 304. Another RailPictures.net contributor John Witthaus is the guy between the tracks with the tripod looking for that perfect shot!

A tunnel motor (SD40T-2), still in FULL (no patch) SP paint, for all you Espee fans, and a CEFX SD40-2 show up on a manifest, as it pauses for a second to get a track & time permit. Train was QNPA... (more)

A rare meeting of Amtrak 303 and 304 at Kirkwood Station caused by the John Kerry train holding them up.

Heres a good look at the massive amount of people who gathered to get a glimpse of John Kerry at Kirkwood, MO.

Union Pacific 9676 stops briefly in Kirkwood.

John Kerry campain train going thru Kirkwood

John Kerry campain train going thru Kirkwood

The local, coming back from a day of switching the Jeff City Sub, flies past MP14, while giving a wave and a toot on the horn to a maintenence crew on the side.

The last manifest of the day (that I saw anyway) passes Kirkwood station. I purposely shot this train at a farther distance in an effort to show more of the beautiful styling of the Kirkwood stati... (more)

A solid consist of SD40-2s lead a westbound ballast train past the Kirkwood station. SD40-2s are becoming pretty hard to find these days.

One of several UP manifests on the day comes past Kirkwood station, I could hear the conductor on this train even through the static on the scanner, as he had a booming voice.

First train of the day, and I just caught it! a strange catch, a UP loco, on the point of a NS train, running over BNSF tracks. You can see the "hillyness" of the Cuba Sub in this shot.

A UP SD60M and a former Espee SD40T-2 in Armour Yellow haul a ballast train through Kirkwood for a track project up the line a little ways.

A UP AC4400CW puts all its power to the rail, as it struggles to lift its train over Kirkwood Hill.

This ex-US Air Force Baldwin model RS4TC switcher getting a ride on an east bound Union Pacific.