The St. Louis Union Station Midway, between the waiting room and the trains, looks neglected less than two months before the station would see its last intercity passenger train.

The westbound road train from Belleville, KS passes the former Rock Island depot enroute to Goodland, KS.

The Kyle Railroad has replaced the Cadillac & Lake City as the operator of the former Rock Island across Kansas, bringing former SP&S #320 for motive power.

Brandon Rail was created in 1981 to serve industries on the former Rock Island line between Manhattan, KS and Clifton, KS. The operation lasted less than a year and the line was later abandoned.

Less than a month before it was forced to shut down, a pair of well worn GP units bring its northbound train past the new Reunion Tower and Arena.

After changing crews in Jefferson City, a westbound approaches signals to crossover at River Jct.

After arriving in Fulton, MO, the local's crew has brought the locomotive to the rear of its train to shove cars into the nearby Harrison-Walker refractory.

Most trains traveling east out of Alliance, NE are loaded with Powder River coal, but in the Nebraska sand hills along Nebraska Route 2, we traveled in our Chevrolet Impala station wagon alongsid... (more)

The local from Mexico, MO switches the yard and industries in Fulton, MO.

Bananas, Blackberrys, Belles and one Gray Ghost in storage with expired leases take up three tracks at the KCS Yard, originally IC, then ICG, CMNW, and GWWR Yard.

Dupo Deadline: a quartet of problematic SD9043MAC units await disposition, likely to nearby Metro East Industries, at the former Missouri Pacific Yard in Dupo, IL

CN local based out of Centralia, IL heads north across the Mud Creek floodplain toward the Prairie State Energy Campus with empty hoppers to be loaded with fly ash, which is the reside left after ... (more)

CN local based out of Centralia, IL is approaching the gate to the Prairie State Energy Campus with empty hoppers to be loaded with fly ash, which is the reside left after burning coal.

CN local based out of Centralia, IL head north toward the Prairie State Energy Campus with empty hoppers to be loaded with fly ash, which is the reside left after burning coal.

A northbound manifest on the River Sub approaches Lindenwood Yard as it crosses over Watson Road, once a part of US Route 66, the Mother Road.