RRC 2301 and RRC 1800 run light down #2 track with guest engineer Sonny Sellers running and conductor and fellow RP contributor Mike Mautner riding the point.

With 21 cars in tow, job 203 comes to a stop under a beautiful puffy clouded sky.

Go green? A lonely John Deere rests while a much brighter green piece of equipment cools down before a day of photo charters.

KCS Engineer and good friend Sonny Sellers sprays a fourth coat of lime green onto the rear of Respondek 3086, an ex Union Pacific SD40-2 which is being painted into Illinois Terminal colors.

Rspondek Rail painted former UP 3086 into Illinois Terminal colors commemorating the IT 100th anniversary. Special Thanks to Terry Respondek and Dale Jenkins and everyone who had anything to do wi... (more)

Respondek 1800, an ex-Alaska GP8 switches an industry within the Tri City Port.

After dragging 82 loads and two buffer cars out of the plant with a GP8 and a SW, the power has been tied down and the crew has gone home. Later on that night a crew came back out and handed the t... (more)

A little Respondek SW1200 drags about 40 cars across the crossing and towards the sweet low setting sun.

This EMD SD40T-2(a former SP Tunnel Motor) is the newest addition to Respondek's fleet. Today she stepped in to provide the motive power for the "Thomas The Tank Engine" train, since TRRA who usu... (more)

Respondek GP10 604 sits in Licthfield. The green and yellow kinda looks like the same colors as ITC 1605 at IRM.

Built in 1955 as ITC 780. The raised drop step was one of many options ordered to make the IT SW1200s suitable to work with their GP7s on road trains, as they often did. 1206 is seen here with I... (more)

After being stationed on the Metro freight line in St. Louis for several years and recently undergoing work at the Manufacturers Railway in St. Louis, Respondek 1219 now resides at the Rivers Edge... (more)

On the first day of unloading at the Port District's new transload area, RRC 1206 waits to shuffle the 50 car pipe train which arrived the night before. Illinois Terminal colors adorn most of Res... (more)

On the first day of unloading at the Port Districts new transload area, RRC 1206 waits to shuffle some of the 50 car pipe train which arrived the night before.

RRC 20 leads a Squaw Creek Southern train north to pick up cars at Lynville.