A matching pair of CSXT ES40DC's switch UP's 12th Street Yard on a beautiful March afternoon in Saint Louis, while an Eastbound empty coal bucket rolls by on the fast track.
The brickwork in downtown Saint Louis is amazing. Who would think of a major metropolitan area having brick roads?! BNSF 4609 and the Mad Turn roll by on the Terminal's Elevated Trackage, along th... (more)
BNSF's Madison Turn with H2, Warbonnet and NS Dash 9's, and a bunch of tanks on flat cars, rolls past a boarding Amtrak #303 at the St. Louis Depot on a warm Spring evening. Busch Stadium, home of... (more)
This SP caboose is used in local service on the UP in St. Louis. Here, two men guide the local as it pushes a short string of cars through the Grand Ave. Interlocking.
This BNSF coal train is headed south on the elevated TRRA trackage at the St. Louis riverfront. The impressive backdrop is the Union Power and Light steam generating plant (which still generates ... (more)
A Union Pacific coal train heads north preparing to turn east onto the Merchants bridge. It is passing the vintage SSW freight depot that has seen its share of trains and taggers.
A light power move returns this trio of GP38-2's to Lesperance Yard from across the river in Illinois. They came across the MacArthur Bridge elephant style into the UP 12th St. Yard and are shown ... (more)
Idling away in the UP 12th St. yard on a sunny Saturday morning. The cut of cars seen behind this locomotive is the only cut of cars in the entire yard today. I have never seen the yard so empty.
Transfer job from the UP 12th St. yard in St. Louis to the Alton and Southern Gateway Yard in East St. Louis, Illinois.
After yarding their grain train in the Tyler St. yard yesterday, these three AC4400CW's rest next to the scrap metal yards, waiting to take the train out of the yard when it's done being filled/of... (more)
Street-running in St. Louis, taking cars into the AB-InBev Brewery complex. First photo posted using my new Nikon D90 DSLR!
Experimental turbine powered loco built by Davenport-Besler for the US Army in 1952. She now resides at the Museumof Transportation in St Louis.
Whitcomb 65 ton switcher at the Museum of Transportatoin in St. Louis, MO.
Eastbound manifest emerges from the BNSF Hannibal Sub to enter the UP Jefferson City Sub. It will only be on UP tracks briefly as it takes the crossover on its way to the Terminal Railroad Associa... (more)