An empty Scherer coal train splices through downtown Madison at track speed. Madison's entire downtown district is on the US National Register of Historic Places. The town's history is closely lin... (more)

A quiet Sunday afternoon in the St. Louis suburbs is momentarily disturbed by the passage of a Missouri River Runner train, highballing west behind Amtrak’s Phase II heritage unit.

The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern operates an excursion and dinner train service with an ex-PRR E8, which recently received a new coat of paint but has not yet been lettered. This unit saw e... (more)

Leading an excursion back to Roanoke from Lynchburg, the J gets a running start for the climb over Blue Ridge grade ahead.

The 611 splits the intermediate signals at Montvale as it leads an NS '21st Century Steam' excursion from Roanoke to Lynchburg.

The rear of NS train 188 just barely clears on the near track as the 611 passes with an excursion returning to Roanoke from Lynchburg.

Amtrak's morning westbound Missouri River Runner between St. Louis and Kansas City hurries across the Meramec River at Sherman Beach on a hot morning.

On its way from St. Louis to Memphis, a High Iron Travel rare mileage excursion passes the old feed mill in downtown Imperial on BNSF's River Subdivision, a former Frisco line which sees no Amtrak... (more)

Coal loads for Ameren’s Rush Island power plant cross over the Meramec River bridge on a nice afternoon. This is the former Frisco line between St. Louis and Memphis, which for much of its route... (more)

The bluffs of the Mississippi River are adorned with vibrant spring greenery as a northbound train races along the UP Chester Subdivision (former Cotton Belt) behind a trio of BNSF units.

A mixed freight splits the 9.2 signals as it heads west from St. Louis. To the right of the train is the former Tuxedo Park depot, a stone structure which dates from the 1890s. The building curren... (more)

It’s been fifteen years since UP reintroduced their ‘winged’ logo on the noses of their locomotives, and while they did so as a nod to their own heritage, it also seems appropriate here on t... (more)

One of UP’s AC6000 ‘convertibles’ (essentially an AC4400 in an AC6000 carbody) in faded paint leads an eastbound auto rack train up the hill through downtown Kirkwood.

A hot Chicago - Jacksonville southbound intermodal train crosses over the Tennessee River at Decatur, on a bridge which sees shared use between CSX and NS (NS dispatchers control all movements acr... (more)

A new SD70ACe and a repainted SD70MAC are the DPUs on a train of Scherer coal empties as they pass through the west side of Decatur.