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)
Coal loads snake through Valley Junction on their way to Union Pacific's Cotton Belt Yard
Randy Allard gets his shot of the KCS business car train as it approaches the curved bridge just west of Valley Junction. The sun was almost under the horizon as the train started its evening run ... (more)
Sweet light, sweet train. After a few hour stay at the former Gateway Western yard in East St. Louis, KCS's beautiful A-B-A southern belle F units are on the move back to Kansas City. The t... (more)
UP 844 take the Little Rock Express across the MacArthur Bridge and over the East Saint Louis Fire Dept.
A quartet of ALS switchers runs a transfer from Gateway Yard to the UP at 12th Street in Saint Louis
UP 844 is rolling high above East St. Louis on the TRRA's MacArthur Bridge Approach with the Little Rock Express heritage tour. The train will soon arrive in Valley Junction.
A half dozen KCSM units head through Q Tower not long after KCS first got a hold of them a short time before.
Coal empties from Wheatfield, IN get ready to swing onto the UP Chester Sub and head to Dupo for a crew change.
UP 844 creeps off of the MacArthur Bridge approach near the Alton and Southern Gateway Yard and Valley Junction. The train will soon make its first stop in Dupo before running down the Chester Sub... (more)
Coal loads snake their way through a curve and down the bridge at sunset, closing in on the crew's final destination of Dupo, IL a few miles south.
ALS 2001 and a SW1500 team up on Job 202 and prepare to depart the yard for a trip to Madison.
Cotton Belt stacks head through the downtrodden Relay Station, Relay Junction area in East St. Louis, IL, under the Veteran's Bridge, on November 4, 1986. This Long Beach CA to East Saint Louis tr... (more)
Union Pacific challenger #3985 heads west across the MacArthur Bridge approach.
NS 2769 leads a colorful TRRA 101 job as it backs into Alton & Southern's Gateway Yard at Valley Junction
