Union Pacific autorack No. ETTX No. 801625 is being rebuilt at the railroad’s car shop at De Soto, Missouri, on September 28, 2011. Here, after painting and lettering of the finished car has bee... (more)

Rail King RK 320 No. 96 switches a freshly-painted C&NW covered hopper at Union Pacific’s De Soto car shops at De Soto, Missouri, on September 29, 2011. This Cummins-powered mobile railcar mover... (more)

A painter finishes up with a coat a fresh light gray paint on the B end of a former Chicago and North Western covered hopper in the paint building at the Union Pacific’s car shops at De Soto, Mi... (more)

A former Chicago and North Western covered hopper gets a fresh coat of light gray paint (used on Union Pacific covered hoppers) in the paint building at the UP’s De Soto, Missouri, car shops on ... (more)

A late running Amtrak train #22, the Texas Eagle, glides down a hill past my residence at the time as it is about to pass through De Soto, MO. 7/31/10

An NS empty ballast train heads south towards Iron Mountain,MO to "get a refill", seen here passing through the south end of De Soto,MO, just steps away from my residence at the time. 5/21/10

Crash! The cleanup process of a traffic collision continues, while two BNSF Dash 9's lead the "Slot Machine" ballast train through the North end of De Soto, running at restricted speed. I n... (more)

The CNW Heritage unit slows to a stop to drop off passengers for breakfast in De Soto, while passing the vintage MoPac caboose at the North end of town.

The fifth train of the morning (a record too probably) ducks under the signal at North De Soto and passes a beautiful memorial for all railroad workers around the country.

Three units from the 57A roll South past the entrance to UP's De Soto Car Shops.

An ex-SSW GP60 leads today's "57A" into De Soto, where it'll setout it's train of bad ordered cars that will be repaired at the car shops. Look closely: Car three is a CSXT hopper on a flatcar.

The Bismarck Local departs De Soto and lays a smokescreen that the military would be envious of. I bet the old stick rail goes back to the MoPac days...

A close up roster shot of a damaged coal hopper, which was involved in a derailment in Colorado. It awaits repair at UP's De Soto Car Shops, and rests on a TTX 60 foot flatcar.

Dude, you're upsidedown! A string of empty coal hoppers that were damaged in a Colorado derailment sit upsidedown on top of 89' flatcars, awaiting repair at UP's De Soto Car Shops.

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