T.G.'s Photography Blog

 Starting on November 30, 2006, through the early morning of December 1, 2006, St. Louis, Missouri, and surrounding areas got hit by a winter storm. St. Louis escaped the large amounts of snow that other places across Oklahoma, Missouri, and Illinois received, but the region got blanketed with sleet and ice. With a small layer of snow of top. On December 1st, I ventured out to capture some railroad photography.  UP 7114 under Spring Avenue at Grand Interlocking The first photograph of the day was Union Pacific (UP) 7114 sitting under the old Spring Avenue overpass at Grand Interlocking. The train and its crew were waiting to head east off a siding along the Jefferson City Subdivision and through the interlocking. The old Spring Avenue overpass at this time hadn't been used for years, and half of it had already been torn down north of the tracks. Grand Interlocking is a junction of UP's Jefferson City Subdivision, BNSF's Hannibal Subdivision, and the Terminal Railroad Associ...

BNSF 5115 - Luther Yard - St. Louis, MO BNSF 5115 is seen here on the point of a Norfolk Southern stack train that is leaving Norfolk Southern's Luther Yard in North St. Louis. The train is nearing Adelaide Avenue, heading south toward May Street Interlocking where it will get onto the TRRA Merchants Bridge . BNSF 5115 and its train will use the bridge to cross over the Mississippi River into the state of Illinois. Once in Illinois the train will use TRRA tracks to gain access to either the NS' Brooklyn District or the NS' Southern West District. Photo taken: St. Louis, Missouri. December 29, 2004.