A typical NPSLCX, with several CSX units, heads past Kirkwood Depot on the north track. The truck sitting next to the track was still dressed in MoPac orange, and had the MoPac herald on the door.... (more)

Southbound intermodal passes KK Road just south of Valmeyer, IL. Luckily, I survived this shot with only three chigger bites. I was expecting worse.

UP ballast train dumps rock as part of a line upgrade to support high speed Amtrak trains from Saint Louis to Chicago

UP intermodal heads south with a train of red boxes, and is about five and a half miles from its crew change point at Dupo.

Passing the wild flowers in the Mississippi River bottoms, AEGAS streaks across the bridge at Fountain, IL. This span is interesting, as it has four different types of bridge decks in the small le... (more)

Southbound coal over Moredock Lake with a former CNW tailing along.

NS 430 sits at Pontoon Road, waiting for its call to head south many hours later in the day.

Coal empties head north after meeting three southbounds at McBride. The storm light scene was, of course, nothing stormy at all, on this cool autumn day.

A short southbound lead by a KCS GEVO shoots across the trestle at Fountain, IL.

Ready to depart Chama, 488 and train finish boarding the last few people.

Like Mark Twain himself had done many times, the pilot of this BNSF train negotiates his way up the Mississippi River through a thick fog.

TRRA's Madison Turn heads west on BNSF rails as it nears its destination of Lindenwood Yard in the last rays of daylight.

Another coal empty heads through Kirkwood, repeating what happens dozens of times a day, every day, day in and day out..............

A new crew is about to arrive after this southbound hogged at Fults. Seeing as this crew started at Dupo only about 30 miles away, it was apparent traffic was not running very smoothly.

A few UP units sit on a cold night in Lesperance Street Yard