Fixing a minor rail defect at night is quite a show, here a UP MOW worker grinds down the fresh steel to rail head-level. This type of operation causes many small fires in the process.

The fall colors are slowly starting to disappear as this UP coal drag "stops on approach" at Pacific. Those massive holes in the bluffs are not caves, but rather are the result of Limestone mining... (more)

The Cuba Local, doing about 40 per, rounds the curve at Pacific where the tracks begin to head south. In about a mile the local will stop to switch a local warehouse.

UP stack 2IMNLB 16 train is cookin' as it rolls through Pacific, past the picturesque bluffs and colorful trees on this beautiful fall day.

Here, doing 50 mph, BNSF 1042 cuts diagonally across W. Pacific Street and 4th Street as it flies through the out skirts of Pacific, MO.

CRCSB 13 strikes a dramatic pose as it slows to stop on the super-elevated. The train ahead of him had a discombobulment with the DPU and problems getting the brake line charged.

You know they're runnin' 'em fast when a 100 car coal train passes you in just over a minute. Here CNKNA9 06 flies through Pacific at an estimated 60 MPH.

Blasting thru Pacific Missouri heading east.