Amtrak F40PHR 364 leads Chicago-St. Louis train #303, the Ann Rutledge, past the St. Louis Gateway Arch and Gratiot Tower. August 26, 1996

Norfolk Southern SD70 2532 passes Gratiot Tower onto the TRRA MacArthur Bridge. August 26, 1996

Southern Pacific AC4000CWs 141 and 328 rumble past Gratiot onto the MacArthur Bridge. The date is August 26, 1996, and Southern Pacific has 17 days left

Union Pacific Big-Mac SD90MAC 8019 comes off the MacArthur Bridge and passes Gratiot Tower. August 26, 1996

Hello??? I thought I had LEFT the New York Metro Area. But, even so, here is Conrail GP7P 5677 (Ex-Central RR of NJ 1521) at the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, Missouri. April 1996

Also at the Museum of Transportation was ex-Conrail SD45 6072. The unit had been stripped of most of its Conrail paint, and its future was unknown to me at the time. However, this unit has now been fully restored to its original paint scheme and number, and is now Erie Lackawanna #3607

Southern Pacific AC4400CW 263 and a sister units 149 and 363 haul a coal train out of downtown St. Louis towards points west. The location is Grand Avenue in St. Louis, with the Metrolink line to the airport on the left. November 1996

Amtrak F40PH #200, the first F40PH locomotive, sits at Amtrak's St. Louis station. These two pictures were taken in April of 1996, and the unit will run for one more year before being retired. Will this historic locomotive be preserved? Time will tell...

Also in April 1996, an interesting motive power lashup came through the TRRA's MacArthur District - A third generation locomotive (BNSF SD70MAC 9736), a second generation locomotive (Morrison Knudsen Leasing, ATSF F45), and a first generation locomotive (Grand Trunk GP9 4439). Weirder still, the SD70MAC was leading LONG HOOD forward... (Don't get any B-NS-F ideas from this now, folks!!!)

April 1997 sees another case of first generation/third generation locomotives. LMX Leasing B39-8E 8591 passes a retired C&NW Geep at Union Pacific's 23rd Street Yard

Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8265 hauls a freight over the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis' MacArthur Bridge and past Gratiot Tower in September 1996

Later that night, Amtrak F40PH 336 rests at Amtrak's St. Louis station after a trip from Kansas City

Burlington Northern SD70MAC 9419 leads a sister past St. Louis Metrolink's Grand Station and into Grand Interlocking

Amtrak F40PH 391 leads a train at Knox Avenue in St. Louis, MO near Burlington Northern's Shrewsbury, MO Lindenwood Yard

Santa Fe B23-7 6356 leads a short transfer run into Gratiot Interlocking towards the TRRA Merchants District

BNSF GP20 2040 at BNSF's Lindenwood Yard

Union Pacific GP15 1681 (fomer MoPac) leads a cut of autoracks through Grand Interlocking

Union Pacific AC60/44CW 7330 passes through Grand Interlocking