This eastbound BNSF manifest on the Hannibal Sub is passing Gibb siding. I thought it might show up too late, but it had perfect timing to catch the brilliant late afternoon sun.

A nice BNSF manifest rolls by about half an hour after sunrise.

A southbound manifest below the bluffs of the Mississippi River near Fults, Illinois.

A southbound stack train on the UP Chester sub near Valmeyer, Illinois.

Early morning light on a high speed southbounder crossing the Fountain Creek bridge.

BNSF 7575 passes a dead grain train in the Burns siding near Clarksville. Missouri.

A BNSF autorack train rounds a curve on a very windy new year's day.

BNSF 8113 leads a local train down the stairsteps west of Wyaconda, Missouri. All their activity at the Medill siding allowed me to get 15 miles to the west to see them in the low late afternoon ... (more)

After doing some work in the Medill siding, BNSF 8113 leads a set of four locomotives out of the siding to recouple to their train seen here on track 2. In about half an hour they would be headin... (more)

A loaded coal train passes under some of the impressive cliffs of the Mississippi River north of St. Louis.

A new tier 4 loco and a 20 year old SD70MAC pull a large manifest near Apex. Remnants of the snowstorm from last week are still visible but will disappear shortly as temperatures approach 60 degr... (more)

After dropping down off Marias Pass, this BNSF grainer is climbing a short grade at East Glacier before hitting level ground to the east.

A short BNSF manifest passes Firma in the last minutes of golden sun. Up to this point I was wishing the train would hurry along to my location before the sun set.

BNSF 6885 leads a 554 axle manifest freight past the Cuivre River bridge re-construction project at Old Monroe, Missouri. This bridge was built around 1930 and has seen better days. The construc... (more)

PHRR 2758 sits idling alongside strings of grain cars at America's Central Port in Granite City, Illinois.