A nice looking set of Heritage 2 locomotives moving west into the setting sun at Barwise Road on the Hannibal Sub.

Freight moving west bound on the Hannibal Subdivision at Machens passing in front of the Portage de Sioux power plant.

A short local train with the leader sporting the H1 paint scheme passing through the river bottoms at Saale Road.

The sun was flirting with me as a line of thunderstorms moved off to the east near Machens on the BNSF Hannibal Sub.

This west bound grain train is at Ell Road in St. Charles County. The lead loco had a sick horn, which seemed like it might be seeing its last days.

A CN cement train pulling out of the Machens siding near St. Louis. The train is passing in front of the Portage de Sioux power plant.

A BNSF mixed freight pulls past Machens, Missouri in the flood plain between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.

I arrived at this location on the Hannibal Sub just before dawn and waited a little more than half an hour for this monster 400 axle mixed freight coming directly into the sun. Some days are bett... (more)

This oil train is cruising through the passing siding at Machens in a growing snow storm.

This one kicked up quite a bit of newly fallen snow as she sped by at 40 mph.

A mixed freight at East Machens pulling out of the siding. You can see the Portage de Sioux power plant in the distance.

After just coming out of the Portage de Sioux power plant, this empty coal train was belching coal dust as it came up to speed.

A west bound coal train coming out of the early morning fog at Powers Road, near Machens, MO.

BNSF westboud coal train bound for Ameren UE's Rush Island power plant passes by another Ameren UE property, the Portage de Sioux power plant, at West Machens, MO 10/3/10

Ameren UE's Sioux power plant pumps out the electricity while two GE's pour on the power with a lengthy North Saint Louis to West Quincy junk train in tow, heading into the low setting March sun.