I came across this odd find while out driving the east side area. A pink BNSF 643 creeps over rout 3 on TRRA's Merchants Bridge on it's way to Terminals Madison yard. Locomotives: BNSF 643, BNS... (more)
Featuring a deturbo’d rebuilt GP40, the engine terminal has a bunch of beauties. BTW, Thanks for the hospitality TRRA.
From B&O to UP to KCS etc. this units is still serving and dazzling railfan photographers.
Originally BN.
From drab beginning as a NYC GP40 to a superstar of the Gateway.
NKP 765 is talking stack as it climbs the east approach to Merchants Bridge.
A Terminal 6 axle EMD duo leads TRRA Train 201 up over Illinois Route 3 using the Merchants Bridge on its way to NS Luther Yard in St. Louis from TRRA Madison Yard. The lead unit is Ex-SP 8515, a... (more)
Venice IL Aug 6 1976 -- Union Electric Lines 7 (left) and 4 are examples of fireless cookers. No 7 has already lost its headlight but still has its generator.
VENICE ILL Aug 3 1976 -- Union Electric Lines fireless cooker No. 2 is decorated on the front with a smiley face and the words Charley's Baby. Corrections and more information welcome.
A classic high hood GP38-2 leads a short transfer through WR in Venice, IL.
Several Terminal Railroad GP38-3 locomotives resting in their Venice yard.
Rolling through Terminal Railroad Association of Saint Louis' Madison Yard in Venice, Illinois, is TRRA SD40-2 3006 (and 3002). This sharp-looking engine was built by EMD in July 1979 as Union Pa... (more)
A pair of TRRA SD40-2's working the hump at Madison Yard
A Pair of TRRA GP38-3s head across Illinois Rt. 3 on the Merchants Bridge heading back toward TRRA's Madison Yard.