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A Subway at Museum Station In Toronto, Ontario

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A view of the Toronto Transit Commission's (TTC) Museum Station Platform . The pillars at the station are decorated to look like historical carvings. This was a quick image captured with my Nexus 5. Photo taken: July 16, 2014, at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

TTC's Museum Station Statues In Toronto, Ontario

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A quick shot with my Nexus 5, of the pillars in the TTC's Museum Station that are made to look like ancient statues. Photo taken: July 16, 2014, at Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

FURX 7258 - BN Green - Hannibal Subdivision - St. Louis, MO

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FURX 7258 - St. Louis, MO FURX 7258 (an EMD SD40-2) leads a BNSF freight train west near Vandeventer Avenue. The train is heading west on the BNSF's Hannibal Subdivision and is heading to BNSF's Lindenwood Yard . Photograph taken: April 18, 2005. St. Louis, Missouri.

TRRA 1503 - West Belt Subdivision - St. Louis, MO - 9/23/08

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TRRA 1503 - St. Louis, MO TRRA 1503 leads its train under Adelaide Avenue on the TRRA West Belt Subdivision, in North St. Louis, Missouri. This train had made its way from the TRRA's Madison Yard in Illinois, across the Merchants Bridge over the Mississippi River into St. Louis, and then onto the West Belt Subdivision. The train was making its way north to North Belt Junction, at Carrie Avenue. At North Belt Junction the TRRA North Belt Subdivision and the West Belt Subdivision interchange with each other. TRRA 1503 According to RR Pictures Archives, TRRA 1503 was built in 1967, for the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. The locomotive is an EMD SW1500 model. Today, the locomotive is owned by GMTX leasing, and is now numbered as GMTX 149. The TRRA, a few years ago, sold off their switcher model locomotives and bought larger locomotives with more horsepower to handle its switching operations. TRRA West Belt Subdivision The West Belt Subdivision runs betwe...

BNSF 2368 - ex-Burlington Northern - Marceline Subdivision

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BNSF 2368 - Barring, MO BNSF 2368 sits in the siding with a work train, while in the distance BNSF 4110 leads a stack train west on BNSF's Marceline Subdivision. BNSF 2368 is an ex-Burlington Northern locomotive that has been patched, but still retains the BN Cascade green paint scheme . Built in 1972, BNSF 2368 is an EMD GP38-2 model. The locomotive was originally built for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, commonly referred to as the Frisco. The Frisco was merged into the Burlington Northern Railway in 1980. Photo taken: May 26, 2005, at Baring, Missouri.

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