An empty BNSF oil train trundles up the TRRA's North Belt along Antelope Street in North St. Louis, MO. Second out is a warbonnet C40-8W, former ATSF 909.

After a long steam train chase, could their really be a better finale? The northern is looking nice, the Mopac heritage engine (UP 1982) is shiny and clean, and all the while the Bill Emerson Memo... (more)

A Loram Rail Grinder heads north on the BNSF Hannibal Subdivision.

A young boy covers his ears as Southern Consolidation #401 chugs south towards downtown Monticello.

This BNSF coal train is heading north on it's way back to the Wyoming coalfields. Highway 79 runs right along side of the BNSF Hannibal Subdivision most of the way from Old Monroe to Louisiana, MO... (more)

Union Pacific 3985 is just south of Dupo as it rolls through the rural farmland.

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)

BSA is on the loose! The UP 2010, the Boy Scouts of America unit, is on its second run as it leads a northbound manifest on the Chester Sub south of Valmeyer in good light. The engine was u... (more)

The sun sets on these Santa Fe searchlight signals, both literally and figuratively.

Branson Scenic's beautifully painted F unit trails the railroad's streamlined passenger cars through Hollister, MO. Though often overshadowed by the much larger tourism hub about a mile to the nor... (more)

Early in the morning of May 17, UP's Mopac and Katy heritage units are at the helm of AASFX 17 as they scream across a foggy Meramec River in western St. Louis County.

NKP 765 shows off its best angle as it gets ready to cross the Missouri River. Note the scores of chasers on the ground all getting their shots of the big Berkshire.

Branson Scenic Railway's red and silver GP30 guides tourists out of the entertainment hub of Branson and deep into the Ozarks. Branson's next door neighbor city, Hollister, has unique storefronts ... (more)

As an Alton and Southern transfer pulls a cut of cars out of the yard, an interesting 3-train meet occurs. The transfer, with a set of venerable ex-MP SD40-2s and two GP38-2s, and a BNSF coal trai... (more)

The MKT heritage unit eases intermodal train KOAMN into the yard at Dupo to set out many of its cars and the second SD70M. The Katy looks good under the Mopac cantilever signal.