Wide-angle shot of UP coal drag CFSNA 30 on the MacArthur Bridge approach.
Now that we have nice weather, can finally shoot in the daytime again! Here the engineer on westrbound CMRNA9 17 "kicks it up a notch" while departing St. Louis.
This BNSF grain drag slowly drifts off the TRRA high line and through its green signal through to Grand Ave, which I would end up getting smoked by this guy trying to make it to Grand before him. ... (more)
UP coal drag CNAAE 24 roars out of Dupo southbound.
After coming off the BNSF, this dump train comes down the old Oak Hill Line past "The Hill," a famous Italian neighborhood in St. Louis, on its trek south. Canon 350D.
On a scorching day, with the temperature at 103*F, with no break in the humidity, a UP SD70M and a CSX SD60 wisk MLENP 24 past a coal drag, and will soon arrive in Kirkwood.
A battered and beaten UP SD60M and a SD40-2 lead a Westbound freight out of the Grand Ave. yard and into the setting sun on a cold Febuary evening.
A UP rack train storms through E. St. Louis, IL on a hazy January afternoon.
This UP intermodal pounds the diamonds at Valley Jct. as it enters the Chester Sub, bound for Dupo.
ALCO Safari Day 1: First stop on my ALCO Safari trip was the local Minnesota Commercial, who still have a couple of active ALCO and MLW products on the roster. Here the Hennepin Job, #52, d... (more)
On this chilly December morning, just after the relief crew arrived, this UP manifest, MWNSL 24, waits for the highball to continue on into St. Louis.
Southbound coal drag CBTJO 29 meets northbound manifest 2MNLASX 30 just south of Dupo.
The crew of this NS local inspects their train before heading off to Granite City.
I'm not sure CN's L54691 local can really be considered a local, sure it switches some industries, but it's the size of a standard manifest, and requires 2 SD40-2's to move it.
A fairly new NS Evo ghost leads two older Dash 9's with a southbound coal train in beautiful afternoon light. Canon 350D.
