T.G.'s Photography Blog

As I was digging through my old film archives I came across this shot from the early 1990s. Here the locomotives of two fallen flags lead a manifest freight west on the Union Pacific's Sedalia Subdivision (now named the Jefferson City Subdivision) at Knox Avenue in St. Louis, MO. On the point is St. Louis and Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 7280. I cannot make out the second unit's number, but the locomotive is a Rio Grande unit. The third unit I believe was a lease unit. Originally, the Sedalia Subdivision ran from Gratiot Tower (now called Gratiot Interlocking) in St. Louis, MO. to Rock Creek Junction, in Kansas City, MO. At some point after 1995, the subdivision was split up, and the eastern portion of the subdivision from Jefferson City to St. Louis was renamed the Jefferson City Subdivision. I'm not sure when the name change occurred, but a Union Pacific timetable I have from 1995, still lists the portion of the subdivision from Jefferson City to St. Louis as being p...

UP 3084, UP 8612, and UP 3068 - 12th Street Yard - St. Louis MO In the first two photographs, above and below, Union Pacific 3084, Union Pacific 8612, and Union Pacific 3068 sit in Union Pacific's 12th Street Yard, located on the southern edge of downtown St. Louis, Missouri. The three locomotives are getting ready to pull a train east out of the yard toward Gratiot Interlocking. In the foreground of the first photograph, a train is heading west on the TRRA Merchants Subdivision . UP 3084, UP 8612, and UP 3068 - 12th Street Yard - St. Louis MO   UP 8612 - 12th Street Yard - St. Louis, MO The third photograph, above, is a closer view of former Denver and Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 5354,  patched as Union Pacific 8612. UP 8612 UP 8612 was built as DRGW 5354 in 1974. The locomotive is an EMD SD40T-2 model. This locomotive model  are commonly referred to as tunnel motors because they were designed to help keep the engine cooler when passing throug...