Covering nearly every inch of the rail but the rail head, grease has accumulated on about a 15 foot section of rail at the lubricator pumps. The grease is used to protect the wheel and rail from ... (more)
An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.
My wife called and said she'd seen a special train so the chase was on. Carrying export locomotives with trucks on heavy duty flatcars this high and wide was probably destined for Norfolk. As ye... (more)