The Beer Railroad: Digging through old photos, it seems that in my youth, I spent lots of time at the "Manny", which was owned by the Anheuser-Busch brewery in South St. Louis. MRS was a ne... (more)
The Beer Railroad: Hard to believe The Anheuser-Busch owned Manufacturers Railway has been gone for 10 years now. As a kid I was lucky enough to get a tour of their steam era engine house. ... (more)
All in the family.
An MRS job over to the A&S' Gateway Yard heads north on the elevated trackage....
After the fresh snow and ice, MRS 254 idles next to the yard office while the crew is inside getting their paper work for the day. MRS just recently painted the boxcar into locomotive colors. Cano... (more)
Boy, talk about color! Red green and yellow locomotives fill up the Manny's yard on this mild march day. The TRRA SW1500 (red) was recently painted by the MRS and is waiting to be picked up by the... (more)
MRS 254, a late production MP15DC, smokes it up at it goes to work shoving a long cut of hoppers back into the MRS yard.. Canon 350D. 75-300mm.
Parked
5 PM Brewery run
Never have seen the MRS come down this way.
Interesting load being tugged around the yard today. A pair of ALCO Blunt type trucks (from the roads once large fleet of ALCO switchers) are pushed back into their resting space on a spur. They a... (more)
This poor hostler has to be his own engineer and brakeman.
MRS MP15DC in the engine house.
MRS MP15DC #254 sits ready for a days work in the MRS engine house.
