The Big Boy has departed its display location in downtown St. Louis and is headed west for its next stops in Pacific, MO and Jefferson City, MO.

IRM #3 was originally built for Dow Chemical Company and later used as a switcher for Eli Lilly. IRM #3 and the Nickel Plate caboose await their next assignment.

The CMR local based at Union, MO starts its work week by picking up empty CSX boxcars at Esselte Corporation and climbing the grade from the warehouse to the former Rock Island mainline.

A pair of Illinois Central SD70s lead TRRA Madison Yard to Centralia, IL local L548. Weather delays and getting through the maze of rail junctions in East St. Louis, IL have outlawed the crew less... (more)

The road power has been removed from CYDU (Cheyenne, WY-Dupo, IL) and the yard unit brings the train in for unloading as it passes the Missouri Pacific cantilever signal guarding the south end of ... (more)

F40PH #124 still soldiers for more than 40 years moving commuters between home and work.

Weekend train approaches New Lenox Station on the Rock Island District.

In homage ot Ephraim Shay, Cadillac has constructed a historical marker and sample of his creation he developed in nearby Haring, MI.

The train displayed at the Museum looks as if the Pan American, or other named train, has arrived to load passengers for destinations further south.

The Tower protected the crossing of the Nickel Plate Clover Leaf and The Illinois Central Gruber Line.

Westbound Z train approaches the diamonds at Joliet, IL

A friendly wave and horn from the engineer acknowledge the photographer as the Texas Eagle makes an on time departure from St. Louis towards its final destination of Chicago, IL.

A P42DC has replaced a Siemens Charger normally assigned to Amtrak's northbound Illini as it cruises past the endless soybean fields of Illinois a couple of minutes before its scheduled stop in Ce... (more)

It looks like a Union Pacific train, but it is a CSX train on the former Pennsy Vandalia line between Terre Haute and St. Louis. UP power regularly runs through from St. Louis to the former NYC ... (more)

TRRA job 201 is a transfer between TRRA Madison Yard in Illinois and BNSF Lindenwood Yard in Missouri. TRRA provides road power from November through April while BNSF provides road power from May... (more)