Western Railroad Discussion > Elusive Prey

UP 1943 arrived in St. Louis in the early morning of 21-Apr-06 on the point of MTPAS.  It would spend the day in the St. Louis metropolitan area, mostly in and around the confines of the massive Alton & Southern Gateway Yard in East St. Louis which has few locations visible to the public.

1.  UP 1943 and train MTPAS (Topeka, KS, Alton & Southern) are parked on the MacArthur Bridge; they would wait about two hours before getting an opening to bring the train into the Gateway Yard.
2.  Having dropped its cars, UP 1943 passes train MASAR (Alton & Southern, Arlington, TX) while SD-40s work the hump.
3.  UP 1943 becomes the lead unit for train MASAR.  The train is facing north, and will be wyed to head south to Texas.

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Nice shots!

RC Lundgren
Elgin, tx

I thought this was a new John Sanford novel...