UP ‘Big Boy’ 4014 rolls through St Louis 8-30-21

Frigid temps this week have me “firing up the way-back machine” looking back at old slides instead of venturing out to shoot new images. Here are a few from 1987-90 that convey “cold” to me. First, C&NW SD40-2 leads a Chicago-bound freight past the old Litchfield & Madison engine house in Edwardsville, IL on 12-18-87….

I’ve caught up to processing the video I’ve shot this summer, and have posted three new 15-minute videos on YouTube. I do almost all of my railfanning at lunch, which limits my range to west St Louis County. You never know what may come along, even if it’s the same locations. Just yesterday I passed…