Oh, How Things Have Changed: Ten years ago, I would have discarded this shot as an uninteresting train. Looking back I think different. Oh sure, it's just a unit coal train, but back before... (more)

ALCO Safari Day 7, Delaware Lackawanna: PO75 stops for a second while switching Keystone Propane in Tobyhanna. The train was cut off East of town, and the crew preformed a quick pull/spot f... (more)

QASLI 19 heads south along the picturesque Mississippi River bluffs at sunset.

This red and silver warbonnet mingles with a blue CEFX leaser in the terminal yard. Canon 350D.

One of the remaining SOO SD60s and a sister shove back to make a joint on the main at Wabasha aftermaking a set out. Wabasha job power waits for its crew in the yard. Taken while off duty, wearing... (more)

This shows just how hectic Valley Jct. can be, 1 southbound, 1 northbound, and 2 on the bridge, ready to go. Train was COVAT 19.

This BNSF manifest cuts across both Big Bend and Geyer Roads diagonally in a somewhat kaddy-whompus fashion. This is undoubtedly one of the most bizarre grade crossings I have seen yet.

This UP manifest, MPIPB 27, is rolling over the Fountain bridge late in the day, it is slowing down for a yellow signal.

Here a lone NS locomotive passes a stopped BNSF train on the Cuba Sub. This is an auto parts train run in conjunction with the Diamler-Chrysler Plant in Valley Park.

Two terminal switchers are latched onto a sizable manifest, and by the end of the day they will pull through Solutia Chemical and into Valley Jct. Its amazing just what a pair of switchers can pul... (more)

One of the A&S' several SW1500's, paired with a former SP 1500, goes to work shoving its cut back into the yard after a long poke . Canon 350D, 28-80mm.

Just after the SB ore train passed, the NB counterpart flies through a rural grade crossing just after sun-down.

A KCS freight procedes to enter Valley Jct. with the St. Louis arch in the background.

A BNSF iron ore train rolls through the flat expanse of Northern Missouri prarie land. As seen in this shot, the line has stretches of straight track that can last for miles.

A nice clean early style SD60M leads a SD40T-2 with an empty ballast train to be reloaded.