A pair of KCS switchers with a string of covered hoppers waits for a signal into Valley with the St. Louis skyline in the background.

Definitely the catch of the day . . . At the end of a slow order, SP 8613 rolls down-grade through Kirkwood with a westbound rack train, AASAMB 17.

This westbound stacker out of Lindenwood Yard rolls over the hilly terrain and the jointed rail of the Cuba Sub.

As the DPU of CCFCSH 10 clears, it reveals a terminal crew waiting for a signal into Valley. They will then go switch Afton Chemical.

A KCS Geep 40 mingles with the only remaining Gateway Western RR SW1500 at KCS' E. St. Louis engine facilities.

Here, the crew on YDU41 16 takes a pair of newer SD70M's and three bad order hoppers out of the Cotton Belt yard and down to Dupo at the blistering speed of 10 MPH.

You can't beat this, an A-B-A set of KCS's business FP9's visits Godfrey, IL with KCS's 5th annual "Holiday Express". These units still retain their Pyle National "Gyralight", however, when rebuil... (more)

After the long trip from Chicago, ZYCLD pulls into Dupo yard across the barren snow-covered landscape at sunset. That second unit is a TFM C30-7SR, what it was doing this far north I haven't a clu... (more)

Late in the day, a single, shiny, new UP ES44AC brings auto rack train ACFCEX 04 down the MacArthur Bridge lead, and snakes through Valley Jct. to reach the old SP yard.

Light power from the QSPTR stands by for a signal from the dispatcher, this as CNAAE pulled into the far track, and waited for a crew van.

At sunset, this hot intermodal, ITIMNX 30, highballs south out of Dupo with a colorful train.

A unit tank train, OCXTY 06, with two CSX motors on the point, pulls into Dupo to change crews and fuel-up after the first big snow.

IHOYC 07 sits in Dupo under clearing skies after the first big snow of the year. The last vestage of what would have been a spectacular sunset shows on the horizon, and Venus pops out from the rec... (more)

The conductor on the "59 Local" steps down from his train to do a roll by on a passing auto rack in nasty conditions. After the train passed, he hurried back to the cab, and I hurried back to my c... (more)

Second and third generation EMD's huddle together in Dupo yard on a cold December evening.