Photo by Gary Zeitler, from my collection. Scapegoat?Maybe. A major wreck was determined to be caused by the trucks, at high speed, so the entire class was scrapped (oops, recycled). I have to ... (more)
The Slater Local has turned out of Mexico, MO, and is heading back West over the Missouri River Bridge at Glasgow. On the next calendar, CPKC was born, making this the last run of the KCS Slater L... (more)
As we were quickly running out of sunlight, we managed one final frame of KCS 4016 pushing West through Vera.
We had been chasing the KCS 4016 when lucked into this BNSF local, which is seen here shoving a small cut of cars over the bridge that spans Buffalo Creek. On the other side of the bridge that the... (more)
Photo by Gary Zeitler. From my collection.
At Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility in Kansas City, Missouri, several UP machinists wrestle with a drawbar after installing new draft gear in the front of UPY EMD GP15-1 No. 697 o... (more)
Late Morning At Lanagan | Northbound manifest train M261 heads past a field near the community of Lanagan, MO on a beautiful Sunday, April 9, 2023 morning. Two EMD SD70-series locomotives l... (more)
With dynamic brake grids needing replacing in Union Pacific GE C44-9W No. 9666, a machinist in UP’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility prepares to perform this maintenance up on the access panels o... (more)
TRRA job 201 is a transfer between TRRA Madison Yard in Illinois and BNSF Lindenwood Yard in Missouri. TRRA provides road power from November through April while BNSF provides road power from May... (more)
After a long interchange with Norfolk Southern’s Luther Yard, Terminal 101 heads through the industrial backstreets of St. Louis as they crawl along 2nd Street with both of TRRA’s SD60I’s in... (more)
A westbound oil train passing under the bluffs formed by the Mississippi River, which was once three miles wide near this location.
A fire-scarred C44-9W cruising west past the grain elevators at Annada, Missouri.
A westbound manifest near Elsberry, Missouri.
A Herzog MOW train is busy transferring old ties to a hopper train.
Curving out of St. Louis' Union Station the cavernous train shed, comes a pair of PRR E8's leading train 65 with 4 cars of mail, 2 bagage cars, and 2 coaches. In the background three Norfolk & ... (more)
