A flawless St. Louis morning yields a trio of Union Pacific SD40 rebuilds swinging downhill around the elevated concrete railroad bridge toward Lesperance St with a long UP YSL53 20 on the drawbar... (more)

Empty grain train G88971-24 for Alden, IA breaks the tranquil morning silence as it shoots northward through the small town of Ludlow on Canadian National's Chicago Subdivision. The Ludlow Co-op g... (more)

The rising sun shines ever bright upon eastbound crude oil train U TNDCXP1 18T as it swings out of Rochelle beneath this now extinct CB&Q intermediate bridge on the Aurora Subdivision. These loade... (more)

Indiana Railroad's daily Senate Ave Yard (Indianapolis) to Hiawatha Yard (Jasonville) road freight SAHW-22 soars over the south bank of Lake Lemon atop the Shuffle Creek Trestle on its westward jo... (more)

Staying occupied classifying railcars, a matched deuce of TRRA SD40 variants work Terminals' Madison Yard "Hump Job" on a beautiful mid-June evening. The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis... (more)

A pair of ex-ATSF "Warbonnet" General Electric Dash 9's drag BNSF T KCS1 20R between the searchlight signals at Santa Fe JCT on KCT's North-South Corridor. This is a transfer job shuffling cars ba... (more)

Iowa Interstate's daily Council Bluffs to Blue Island road freight (CBBI-17) leisurely strolls through downtown Moline over a layer of freshly fallen snow at a brisk 10 mph with the usual pair of ... (more)

Dusk has arrived as a pair of matched Union Pacific EMD SD60s lift an eastbound UP 12th St Yard to A&S Gateway Yard transfer job over the rough industrial scene of St. Louis' riverfront. The train... (more)

Playing peek-a-boo amongst the gritty structures of downtown St. Louis' riverfront, a former Missouri Pacific EMD GP38-2 works Lesperance St yard's 0700 YSL14R 21 "Dump Job" as it drags ... (more)

An eclectic deuce of locomotives hustle a 96-car Tulsa, OK to Galesburg, IL high-priority mixed merchandise train H TULGAL9 10A across the immense Ellison Creek trestle near the small community of... (more)

The St. Louis skyline provides quite the appropriate backdrop for this 56 minute late Amtrak #22 "Texas Eagle" as it leaves the city behind gliding across Terminals' MacArthur Bridge Dis... (more)

With the sunlight on last call, a 12-car Kansas City Southern transfer job from Venice Yard operating on TRRA's aptly named Illinois Transfer Subdivision splits a pair of tri-light signals after g... (more)

A quick sucker hole in the building cloud cover allows the sun to shine through and illuminate westbound local freight L-CHI1021 16I as it works its way through the quaint community of Edelstein a... (more)

Approaching Galesburg on the Ottumwa Subdivision, BNSF SD70ACe No. 8592 shoves hard through Cameron on the rear end of eastbound loaded Consumers Energy coal drag C BTMCXC0 12A. Originating out we... (more)

The roar of struggling locomotives in notch 8 pierce the mid-morning silence as southbound loaded coal drag UP CATJO9 23 muscles up the 1.1% grade known as Logan Hill north Bill, Wyoming. Topped o... (more)