Union Pacific's daily Proviso (Chicago), IL to Pine Bluff, AR manifest train works its way down the Chester Subdivision near Fults, IL led by not to shabby looking NS standard cab Dash 8. The high... (more)

Crop harvesting season is upon us. A pair of CSXT YN3 Dash 8 widecabs, the leader being ex-Conrail, hustle a westbound empty "Earthworm" grain train across the BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision and und... (more)

Running under a mess of urban power lines and various poles, a southbound autorack re-position move for Laredo, TX rolls down Union Pacific's Del Rio Subdivision behind a lone Dash 9 on a miserabl... (more)

With the St Louis, MO skyline looming in the background, a handsome looking former Conrail Dash 8 standard cab brings a healthy-sized Proviso Yard (Chicago), IL to Pine Bluff, AR manifest down the... (more)

Behind a pair of UP General Electric units, a long 500+ axle empty coal train swaggers its way north on the Chester Subdivision, part of the St. Louis Service Unit, and along the autumn colored bl... (more)

Rounding the Houlihan's Curve just outside of Chillicothe, a hot Morrisville, PA (NS) to Los Angeles, CA Intermodal Z-train begins its westbound attack on the 1.1% grade of Edelstein Hill behind y... (more)

With the sun having just crested the horizon and a bit of early dawn fog still left in the air, Alton & Southern's Gateway Yard sits quietly under the St. Louis, MO skyline with some rather intere... (more)

In the midst of a late-afternoon train parade, a southbound manifest extra for Pine Bluff, Arkansas zips down the Chester Subdivision as it parallels the autumn colored Mississippi River bluffs. T... (more)

Fresh off the Merchants Bridge, crossing from Missouri to Illinois, an eastbound Saginaw, TX (BNSF) to Fort Wayne, IN high-priority TripleCrown train navigates past the complicated track layout of... (more)

CN 5416, a former Oakway leasing SD60, sits idle on the shop tracks just outside of the Gateway Rail Services Inc in Madison, IL. This was the first unit in a string of six which consisted of thre... (more)

Skirting the fall colored bluffs of the mighty Mississippi River, two Union Pacific SD70M's fly north up the Chester Subdivision and over the lonely Harris Rd grade crossing with a long Eagle Pass... (more)

After cooling its heels north of town for this train's northbound counterpart, this high-priority Global IV Joliet, IL to Mesquite (Dallas), TX intermodal Z puts the peddle to the metal as it acce... (more)

On a crisp and cool October morning, Union Pacific's eastbound "Local 59" screams across the Meramec River along the scenic Jefferson City Sub behind a pair of former MoPac GP15-1's. This job had ... (more)

An Alton & Southern transfer job for Gateway Yard led by a pair of good looking Union Pacific EMD SD60M's departs UP's 12th Street Yard in downtown St. Louis headed east. The large building in the... (more)

Having just completed its 1.1% climb out of the Illinois River Valley, westbound doublestack train Q-NYCLAC (NS 21G) charges under the ATSF searchlights at Edelstein with a pair of Norfolk Souther... (more)