On Just an Amazing Overall Day Trackside Amtrak's Texas Eagle Heads North Out of Saint Louis Bound For Chicago.
With the Saint Louis Skyline in the Background a UP Loaded Coal Heads across the MacAurthur Bridge toward Gateway Yard where it will turn South and Begin its journey on the Chester Sub
A loaded UP coal train comes over the MacArthur Bridge, about to turn south to Dupo, IL.
MCHPB 29 pokes its nose out of the short tunnel at Hole In The Wall. The location is named simply because there is a hole in the wall, the wall being the approach for TRRA's MacArthur Bridge over ... (more)
MCHPB 29 has a pair of CSX motors this day, and is about ready to make the turn onto the Chester Sub for the final five miles of its journey with this crew.
Alton and Southern SW1500 number 1501 heads a transfer back to Alton and Southern's Gateway Yard, in tow is TASD Former MP15DC and is being turned into a RP14BD Genset, I think, In Saint Louis.
TASD 802 Heads to Alton and Southern Yard in East Saint Louis on a Transfer from 12th Street yard in Saint Louis. The little info I have gathered about this engine is that it used to be a MP15DC f... (more)
A trio of A&S units returns from a transfer run to Saint Louis, with TASD 802 in tow.
A westbound intermodal climbs the MacArthur Bridge on a curved section of the upgrade approach, safely gliding a few stories above beautiful East Saint Louis, IL.
A TRRA job takes a short train down the Illinois Transfer, through Valley Junction, and eventually into Sauget, IL.
A load of Siemens wind turbine parts, in this case a couple dozen nacelles and hubs, turns southward to enter Cotton Belt Yard.
27,000 HP under the Arch. That's a lot of horsepower. Two KCS SW1500s pull 7 ex-BN SD40-2s and 1 HLCX SD40-2 out of the deadline at the west end of the former GWWR yard in East St. Louis. U... (more)
A trio of KCS units comes into Valley Junction with UP train USHES 14.
After dropping a cut of cars at KCS's East Saint Louis Yard, this TRRA job heads up the Transfer with light engines back to Madison, IL.
Grain loads bound for Texas round the bend in East Saint Louis, and cause a bit of distortion on the Gateway Arch on this sunny and warm January day.