Two GE's ease the MASKC off the MacArthur bridge towards Gratiot with parts of the Saint Louis Skyline and the Gateway Arch making up the background. Hey Pony, my ride is cooler than yours! :-)

I spent today scouting out locations to shoot the UP 3985 "Challenger" when it arrives in St. Louis next week and found this Hampton Avenue overpass at Manchester to be a great spot. Before I lef... (more)

Running on the TRRA's Merchant's Sub., a BNSF ore load heads south for Birmingham, Alabama.

Northbound Union Pacific work train awaiting a new crew in the old Missouri Pacific Ivory Yard, adjacent to the new River City Casino, in beautiful soft early morning light on a hot and muggy fina... (more)

Northbound Amtrak Texas Eagle slips past a Union Pacific work train in the old Missouri Pacific Ivory Yard, adjacent to the new River City Casino, in beautiful soft early morning light on a hot an... (more)

Two of the new GP38-3's recently purchased from Helm Financial, one in the snazzy new TRRA paint scheme and one yet to be painted, switch cars at Bremen Interlocking.

A weather-beaten warbonnet leads this manifest along the Mississippi River in north St. Louis. In the background is the Terminal Railroad Association's Merchants Bridge.

QNLCH 21 passes by the long derelict Cotton Belt freight house, now used mainly as a canvas for subhuman waste products to grace the world with their "art."

Shoving cars into a scrap metal processing plant just after sunrise.

Three SD9s and a GP38-2 have control of the westbound Madison Turn as it approaches Lindenwood Yard.

Union Pacific train STXSL 30 sits next to RailCruise America's green train at Saint Louis Union Station.

A few UP units sit on a cold night in Lesperance Street Yard

The special is dwarfed by the Mississippi River bluffs at Cliff Cave Park in Southern St. Louis County, Mo. UP 1982 and 1996 have the honors.

The afternoon job #202 has just crossed the river into Missouri and St. Louis. Now the job will runaround their train and start their work around the river front area. Here they pull their train n... (more)

Flood Stage A Terminal Railroad Geep in the new scheme passes under the Eads bridge and over some major flooding at the St. Louis Riverfront. Note the stop sign which is somewhat under wate... (more)