The H-STLGAL4-24 has just cleared TRRA trackage in St. Louis and begins its journey up the Hannibal Sub (K Line) and passes a pair of crews working at the ADM facility in North St. Louis. The CF7... (more)

On November 3rd, 2020 I was invited down to a quick photo shoot of some staged power on The Prairie Line. They set up their brightly painted SW1200, MP 15 and GP30 for a few quick photos off of A... (more)

UP trackage rights over the BNSF Transcon see this Global 4 to City of Industry, CA, Z-train hammering west on the Marceline Sub. The train is about past thru the small town of Rutledge as they ma... (more)

The Santa Fe built into Marceline around 1887. Marceline, came at the request of a director of the new railway whose wife had the Spanish name of “Marcelina.” This depot was built in 1913, and... (more)

Pretty crazy the amount of container traffic up and down the BNSF Transcon. Here San Bernardino traffic bound for Willow Springs make tracks east on the Marceline Sub. The train passes this cool o... (more)

A Galesburg to St. Louis freight passes thru the town of Louisiana along the Mississippi River. The train is working eastbound (south) on the Hannibal Sub and is about to cross the KCS Roodhouse S... (more)

An empty out of Osceola, AR, from the Plum Point Energy plant, works eastbound on the Hannibal Sub near Helton. The train is about 10 miles from the next crew change point at West Quincy. Surprisi... (more)

A loaded coal train bound for interchange with the CN in Memphis, rolls south on the Hannibal Sub. The train is a few miles from Hannibal and crossing the NS Springfield Sub. Coal bound for the St... (more)

A northbound manifest on the River Sub approaches Lindenwood Yard as it crosses over Watson Road, once a part of US Route 66, the Mother Road.

An empty Palo, AL, coal train off the Ft. Scott Sub rolls into KCT Trackage in the West Bottoms in KC. The train is heading for Murray Yard on the St. Joe Sub for furtherance to Lincoln, NE, and o... (more)

An empty grain train bound for Bayard, IA, heads towards Murray Yard as they pass thru the West Bottoms in KC. The train is near or pass the farthest north end of the Ft. Scott Sub and the Old Uni... (more)

The Thomas Hill Sub is a 17 mile long branch off the Brookfield Sub in northern Missouri. The branch serves as a connection for coal trains coming and going from the Associated Energy Cooperative�... (more)

The Thomas Hill Sub is a 17 mile long branch off the Brookfield Sub in northern Missouri. The branch serves as a connection for coal trains coming and going from the Associated Energy Cooperative�... (more)

The Thomas Hill Sub is a 17 mile long branch off the Brookfield Sub in northern Missouri. The branch serves as a connection for coal trains coming and going from the Associated Energy Cooperative�... (more)

The Thomas Hill Sub is a 17 mile long branch off the Brookfield Sub in northern Missouri. The branch serves as a connection for coal trains coming and going from the Associated Energy Cooperative�... (more)