“After passing through Valley Park, the Missouri Pacific follows the Meramec River, crossing it twice before reaching Eureka on the far west end of St Louis County. At Crescent, three Missouri Pacific U30Cs lead a coal train around the curve towards the second crossing of the Meramec on October 11, 1975. The train is bound…
Near the south end of the Oak Hill branch, the tracks pass through Carondelet Park on the south side of St Louis. A trio of MP ‘Screaming Eagle’ U30Cs lead an empty ore train south through the park on October 18, 1975. These ore trains originated on the 26-mile Pea Ridge branch and connected to the…
Out on the M-I “mainline”, MP GP16 #68, converted from an RS11, leads a westbound freight out of the Mississippi River valley in July 1974, bound for Bismarck. The M-I operated a 123-mile line from Salem, Illinois to Bismarck via the aforementioned carferry operation at Ste. Genevieve. The carferry operation was discontinued in 1961, and the…