That's a lot of ketchup. The Western Pacific heritage unit leads empty Newton, IL, coal train E968-08 westbound on the CSX St. Louis Line as it passes the defunct Brooks Ketchup bottling pl... (more)

Former ATSF Dash 9 #637 and company make a smokey departure from the siding at Elsberry, MO, with a long cut of empty Dakota-bound tank cars.

The CNW heritage unit rests on the western approach to the MacArthur bridge on the point of an Alton and Southern employee excursion while manifest freight MASNP approaches on the other track with... (more)

Meet Virginian. A southbound UP grain train meets Virginian heritage unit-led empty crude oil train ONUEU at Warnock on UP's Chester Subdivision. The VGN was sitting crewless in a line of n... (more)

Early in the morning of May 17, UP's Mopac and Katy heritage units are at the helm of AASFX 17 as they scream across a foggy Meramec River in western St. Louis County.

The "preview" day at Streamliners at Spencer was more like a look into the past.

Bound for Charlotte, PRR E8 #5809, with a number of high rollers in tow, crosses over at the Salisbury, NC, Amtrak station.

Reading F7 284 takes a spin on the NCTM turntable during the preview day for the Streamliners in Spencer event.

Reproducing a Classic. One of my favorite railroad photos (See it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ATSF_DL_in_Kansas.jpg) involves the cleaning of ATSF FT #103 in 1943. 71 years late... (more)

DLW 663, WAB 1189, and SOU 6133 each strike a dramatic pose for the Thursday night photo session at the Streamliners at Spencer event.

Every shape, every color.

A rare extended cab Burlington Northern GP50- paired with a rebuilt GP35 on a local out of West Quincy, MO- switches the Dyno Nobel plant at Louisiana, MO.

Spencer Bound! EMD Demonstrator FT 103 rests in the back of the Museum of Transportation's yard awaiting pickup by a Union Pacific movement. After a 15 mile trip on UP rails, the unit will ... (more)

The lowest numbered unit on CSX's roster, the Spirit of West Virginia, teams up with a BNSF Dash 9 to pull UP freight MASSH 19 southbound to Shreveport, LA.

With the historic station looming above, a pair of SD70MACs lead a manifest freight into Kayne Avenue Yard in downtown Nashville, TN. The third unit is an OFOX SD40-2.