As Amtrak's Missouri River Runner train 313 makes its station stop in Kirkwood, an eastbound freight passes by with a freshly repainted GE as DPU shoving hard on the rear.

Amtrak 69 leads the westbound Missouri River Runner into Kirkwood for a stop.

Missouri River Runner train #313 heads south through Kirkwood, MO nearing its station stop up ahead.

UP 8974 leads UP AGBML west past the historic MoPac depot in Kirkwood.

UP "Big Boy" 4006 sits on display at the Museum of Transportation.

CB&Q 9939-A sits on display at the Museum of Transportation.

UP 7094 leads a empty coal train west around the sweeping curve in Kirkwood.

EL SD45 3607 sits on display at the Museum of Transportation.

Smoke from hot wheels and brakeshoes obscures most of the train and the surroundings as three Missouri Pacific F7's lead a gravel train down Kirkwood Hill, Missouri in August 1969.

Frisco #1522 at the Museum of Transportation, Kirkwood, Missouri

After picking up a healthy dose of passengers at the former Mopac depot in downtown Kirkwood, the afternoon Missouri River Runner heads west for Kansas City.

The museum's restored Also RS-3 in MOPAC colors looks fine at the "Rails At Night" event.

At the first ever "Rails At Night" event hosted by the museum, period actors pose in front of one of the museum's treasures, the Frisco 1522 4-8-2 Mountain. We in St. Louis still hold ou... (more)

The evolution of steam power is on display at the Museum of Transportation. The 4-4-0 Daniel Nason (center) dates from 1858; DL&W Camelback 952 is from 1905; and Santa Fe 2-10-4 5011 is a Baldwin... (more)

Here's a look at the backhead inside the cab of ATSF Texas-type 2-10-4 #5011. This locomotive was the first in the final order of 2-10-4's that the Santa Fe ordered during 1944. There were twenty ... (more)