Smoke from hot wheels and brakeshoes obscures most of the train and the surroundings as three Missouri Pacific F7's lead a gravel train down Kirkwood Hill, Missouri in August 1969.
After picking up a healthy dose of passengers at the former Mopac depot in downtown Kirkwood, the afternoon Missouri River Runner heads west for Kansas City.
At the first ever "Rails At Night" event hosted by the museum, period actors pose in front of one of the museum's treasures, the Frisco 1522 4-8-2 Mountain. We in St. Louis still hold ou... (more)