Hartford Send Off
With one week left till it's independence as a railroad would cease to exist, the opportunity for one final chase of a Kansas City Southern freight up the former Gateway Western presented itself. With sun starting to dip in the western sky, and after completing it's work setting out bad order cars in KCS's East St. Louis yard, KCS train M259 (formerly MVNKC) leaves the St. Louis metroplex behind as it heads north up the joint trackage of the Union Pacific Springfield Subdivision through Hartford Illinois. The train will stay on Union Pacific trackage till it jumps onto KCS home rails at Godfrey for the run up to Roodhouse.
Hartford Send Off
With one week left till it's independence as a railroad would cease to exist, the opportunity for one final chase of a Kansas City Southern freight up the former Gateway Western presented itself. With sun starting to dip in the western sky, and after completing it's work setting out bad order cars in KCS's East St. Louis yard, KCS train M259 (formerly MVNKC) leaves the St. Louis metroplex behind as it heads north up the joint trackage of the Union Pacific Springfield Subdivision through Hartford Illinois. The train will stay on Union Pacific trackage till it jumps onto KCS home rails at Godfrey for the run up to Roodhouse.