Lit by a few sodium lights and the first minutes of dawn, this BNSF train bound for Galesburg makes its way through downtown Saint Louis. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge is just to the left, li... (more)

The engineer and conductor of this train chat while waiting to move north, part of a long line of trains waiting to be crewed and taken to Alton & Southern's Gateway Yard

The City of Kirkwood is putting up signs along the tracks warning people to keep off.

Traces of the Milwaukee Road....... still showing through on this old GP40, recently picked up by Respondek Railroad, awaiting a little TLC in Granite City, IL.

A quintet of EMDs takes an Alton & Southern transfer back home from Saint Louis. The pair of SD40-2s normally works the hump, while the other units have been gathered for a trip to North Little Ro... (more)

An empty taconite train heads up TRRA's Merchants Sub for a connection with the BNSF Hannibal Sub

Southbound BNSF passes by a relic of the Frisco which once carried signal code and communication lines. Many of the River Sub poles in southern Missouri were removed in the mid 2000s, but a few st... (more)

The cacti may give this a southwestern appeal, but really, it was just another late summer day in St. Louis. I guess someone decided the ROW needed to be decorated with a spread of cactus.

A loaded UP coal train comes over the MacArthur Bridge, about to turn south to Dupo, IL.

Northbound grain empty at Valley Junction

Northbound on the Chester Sub zooms past some of the majestic mountain ranges of Monroe County

Westbound auto parts train crosses the second of two Meramec River bridges on its way to Kansas City

Central Midland Railway's transfer to TRRA slowly rolls over Pennsylvania Avenue.

NS 1070 takes the lead as the second excursion of the day makes its way back toward Berkeley Yard.

A fast moving westbound kicks up the powdery beginnings of a several inch snowfall