Ron Gawedzinski was kind enough to send me these YouTube links for two Live Trains LLC rail cams in the St. Louis area....

On September 15, members of the Gateway Division NMRA and St. Louis Chapter NRHS toured Continental Fabricators on Park Avenue in St. Louis. Continental fabricates pressure vessels, towers, drums, and many more items. They have special expertise in fabricating, restoring and rehabbing...

Roger Verbeeren, President, gave 24 members of the Gateway NMRA and St. Louis NRHS an extensive tour of Gateway Rail Services, Inc. We visited their rebuild shop, fabrication shop, wheel shop, and two private rail passenger cars, as well as viewing their inventory of passenger equipme...

Starting with several thousand images, here is an additional set of my favorite photos from my many railfan trips....

Starting with several thousand images, here are some more of my favorite photos from my many railfan trips....

Starting with several thousand images, here are some of my favorite photos from my many railfan trips....

A recent “Trains and Locomotives” video on the RFD-TV channel inspired Bill Linson to railfan Centralia, Illinois, historically an Illinois Central town, which now sees Canadian National, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and Amtrak traffic. Bill captured blue skies and a variety of train...

Friday was such a beautiful day here - 71 degrees and not a cloud in the sky - so I ran down to Pacific, Missouri (about 6 or 7 miles west of home in Ballwin, and calls itself “Train Town USA”) and caught four trains in the span of fifty minutes....

A photo tour of the Railpark train museum in the Bowling Green, Kentucky L&N depot featuring a running model railroad, exhibits on railroad history, and a guided tour of a restored passenger train....

A dozen of us, from Ohio, Kentucky, and Canada as well as Missouri, spent the last week on a rail fan trip to Colorado and Wyoming. We all met in Chicago, took Amtrak’s California Zephyr to Denver, and then rented cars to get around including the Powder River Coal Basin and Cheyenne S...

Members of the St. Louis Chapter National Railway Historical Society and the Gateway Division NMRA toured the locomotive repair facilities and paint shop of Metro East Industries, Inc. on Oct. 3, 2015. MEI is a family owned and operated business that repairs locomotives and freight ca...

A railroad-related side trip needs to be part of any vacation. Since we were in the Tampa area, Alex and I took a morning trip to the Florida Railroad Museum. The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday and operates diesel-powered train excursions on Saturdays and Sundays on six miles...