| Most viewed - Missouri K-Line |
Old swing bridge gear mechanism 201 viewsIn 2012 the KCS replaced the swing bridge gear mechanism, here are the old gears lying next to Hwy 79.
|
|
BNSF & KCS diamond, looking SE201 viewsThis view of the diamond shows the BNSF tracks heading south to the Bunge feeds elevator, while the KCS heads east over the swing bridge.
|
|
C&A depot with train199 viewsEastbound C&A Mogul? at the depot before crossing Noix Creek and then the Mississippi.
|
|
Northbound BNSF freight with ballast cars enters Elsberry196 viewsSD70MAC pulls a string of empties northbound.
|
|
Silver Charger rolling out of St. Louis196 viewsSilver Charger heads west out of St Louis on the K-line. Since the year is unknown, this could be for either the General Pershing Zephyr or the Mark Twain Zephyr, as the Silver Charger was used on both.
|
|
General Pershing Zephyr on the way to Kansas City196 viewsThe Silver Charger resembles its namesake as it rolls out of St. Louis on the way to Kansas City. The General Pershing Zephyr used the K-Line until it headed west. "Alton Burlington" was occasionally used on the nameplate as it used Alton RR trackage.
|
|
Swing bridge and Illinois194 viewsKCS swing bridge spans the Mississippi, this view is looking east at Illinois
|
|
Holcim Cement193 viewsThis plant originally started as Dundee cement in 1967. At the time it was the world's largest cement kiln, which measured 760 feet long and 25 feet in diameter and could accommodate 1.4 million tons of clinker a year. Dundee was a direct predecessor to Holnam (later to become Holcim), but the plant was closed in 2009.
|
|
KCS swing bridge193 viewsWhen it was built, the 444 ft swing span was the largest in the nation.
|
|
Southbound Freight out of Elsberry187 viewsBNSF C44-9W splits the twilight pulling a night freight to St. Louis
|
|
KCS swing bridge187 viewsThe Chicago & Alton Railroad built the original bridge in 1873, and sold it to the B&O Railroad in 1929. B&O sold it to the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio in 1945. GM&O became Illinois Central Gulf in 1972, and then acquired by the Chicago, Missouri, and Western in 1987...which became the Gateway Western (1990), and now Kansas City Southern (2001).
|
|
KCS swing bridge187 viewsOriginally built by the Chicago & Alton in 1873 as one of the first 15 bridges across the Mississippi. It was rebuilt in 1898 on the 1873 piers.
|
|
Highway 54 bridge over Mississippi186 viewsThe BNSF line runs directly below this photo at the base of the bluff.
|
|
BN local rolls across IC/BN diamond180 viewsA BN local rolls past the Louisiana tower in 1975. This is either the St. Louis local returning north to W. Quincy, or the Cosgrove Turn local backing south down the mainline to service the (Hercules) plant.
|
|
Kissinger, MO179 viewsBNSF leaves Highway 79 for several miles here. On the right are two boxcars from a 1962 derailment on the CB&Q. A defective flange caused a multi-car derailment, and about 7-10 cars came off the track. Most of them sat there into the 1970s, but later were removed except for two boxcars.
|
|
| 278 files on 19 page(s) |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
16 | |
|
|
