An empty BNSF oil train trundles up the TRRA's North Belt along Antelope Street in North St. Louis, MO. Second out is a warbonnet C40-8W, former ATSF 909.

A pair of former Santa Fe SD40-2s, including one still wearing its original ATSF bluebonnet paint, assembles a train at the west end of BNSF's Lindenwood Yard.

A pair of KCS GP40-3s lead transfer YKC106 down UP rails in Kansas City's West Bottoms district.

Brand new UP SD70AH #8949 leads a westbound coal empty through Pacific, MO, with barren, leafless trees blanketing the hills in the background. Southern Pacific painted AC4400CWs served as both th... (more)

A BNSF transfer with two windmill blades at the head end ducks under the 12th Street Bridge in the West Bottoms district of Kansas City, MO. A pair of Burlington Northern cascade green geeps--a GP... (more)

Nearly new BNSF ES44C4 #8017 and 4 more Gevos lead Z LACNYC9 22A under one of the Transcon's last cantilever signals at West Baring, MO, in May of 2014. This was the sixth train of 15 that would r... (more)

Clean UP SD70AH #8889 leads a grain train through West Bottoms in Kansas City, MO.

NS D70, a transfer from Voltz Yard to BNSF's Argentine Yard, threads its way through some of the many searchlight signals still guarding the rails around Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City, MO. Powe... (more)

A nose-to-nose comparison of two classic schemes on modern widecab locomotives-- one executed a little better than the other.

BNSF H GALMAD3 23A nears its destination of TRRA's Madison Yard behind a crazy group of locomotives. NREX 5952, a former UP SD60, heads up the consist with UP C40-8 #9300, CP AC4400CW #9547, BNSF ... (more)

A pair of high-hood GP38-2s have temporarily escaped their local assignments and lead intermodal/autorack train 285 over the Wabash Bridge in St. Charles, MO. The gravel at ground level is the for... (more)

Now leased through Progress Rail Leasing, former Burlington Northern SD60M #8136 rolls south through Clarksville, MO, on the Hannibal Subdivision with empty fertilizer train X ANDMAD4 15A in tow.... (more)

Life begins at 50. GM&O GP35s aren't common sights on Norfolk Southern trains, so VLIX 631 was a welcomed treat on this NS manifest. Painted in ragged Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio paint and ridin... (more)

Searchlight signals, sweet sunlight, and a Santa Fe SD75M meet in this view of former ATSF warbonnet #205 leading a short string of coiled steel cars down the Cuba Subdivision at West Dillon.

5 big engines from UP and CSX make up the head end consist (with 1 DPU) on QNPCXP 21, shown here heading "down stream" along side the mighty Missouri River. Hermann, a quaint small town ... (more)