TPLX 1001 brings 3 cars down the middle of Dorcas Street and into the former Manufacturers Railway yard in St. Louis. The Budweiser plant always provides a nice backdrop.

I posted another picture from this same location taken a few days earlier, and it was completely different. Here we have a short train and hazy late afternoon light, not to mention cows. The loc... (more)

Engineer DJ brings 101 north out of CMC Ameristeel with 4 motors and 7 empty scrap gondolas.

A company passenger special is returning to the Alcoa Aluminum plant. The little Alcoa road is now moribund with the plant gone.

Union Railroad 29 spends a quiet evening outside the Hall Shops in Monroeville, PA.

Snow flurries engulf North Knoxville as engineer Mike Parks eases 101 south out of Coster with scrap loads and rebar empties for CMC Ameristeel.

TPLX 1001 shoves down Dorcas St and into the brewery in St. Louis.

Massena Terminal MP15DC and its train have almost reached the Alcoa aluminum plant as they cross the Massena Power Canal.

Somehow I can't think of these as "buttheads" in the classic since, what with the road trucks and all. Great place to railfan down south in the 80s. Did you ever wonder if "railfa... (more)

A trio of MP15's on the Union Railroad's 66A job bring coke empties along the river as they pull out of the US Steel Edgar Thomson Works in North Versailles, Pennsylvania. A group of barges and th... (more)

A pack of Union Railroad MP15’s and SW1500’sarrive at the Bessemer & Lake Erie interchange at North Bessemer, Pennsylvania.

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)