MPIPB has finally made it into Dupo at 2:00 am, here in the dense fog, it sets out bad orders at the south end of Dupo Yard.

At around 11:30 pm this dead manifest sits at Valmeyer waiting for a new crew, as another train flies past it, taking the diverging approach through the crossover. Canon 350D.

While waiting for a signal into the 12th street yard, YDU50 slowly creeps down the bridge approach while being passed by an eastbound manifest.

After coming off the BNSF, this dump train comes down the old Oak Hill Line past "The Hill," a famous Italian neighborhood in St. Louis, on its trek south. Canon 350D.

A quiet night in Dupo tonight, there isn't much activity in the yard as this coal drag waits for a new crew not far from the yard tower. Canon 350D.

With night beginning to take the place of day, the crew of the YDU50 waits for a signal at the north end of Dupo yard at sunset, on a cold winter day. Canon 350D.

This in-bound Metra train navigates the double-slip switches and crossovers in the yard throat area of Ogilvie, just as it's CNW ancestors did 50 years earlier. Canon 350D.

With the St. Louis skyline crisp in the background, this UP manifest waits, with a jumble of power, for a signal through Valley Jct. Canon 350D.

An EMLX unit pokes it's head out at the old GWWR engine facilities, this yard was almost shut down, however, the agreement with TRRA was too costly and did not work out. . Canon 350D.

Two yard units, a GP38 and a GP60 rock back-and-forth as they make their way down the east auxilary track in Dupo Yard. Canon 350D.

Happy Holidays! After bringing the CEO of the UP into St. Louis, the MoPac and Katy units slumber just outside the gates of SLUS on a frigid December evening. The Ameren UE building is providing t... (more)

With a friendly wave from the RCL operator, 728 backs over Cheauteau St. and back into the yard. Canon 350D.

Without much to tell the date, this photo could have easily been taken in the mid '90s. But today, 2037 is one of only a fer GWWR engines left and today it swings off the Terminal at WR Tower and ... (more)

Even though most of the snow is gone its still cold! Here the Federal Puller waits for the main to clear so it can run into A.O. Smith yard. Canon 350D.

The dispatcher has her hands full running single track from Webster to Dozier, here an eastbound coal drag has cleared Webster (track one to track two) and the westbound manifest can now procede. ... (more)