Railroading in the Patch
Union Pacific's St. Louis-DeSoto, MO local, the LSE57 is about to roll over Cortois St. in St. Louis' gritty south side neighborhood known as the Patch. This is in the city's extreme southeast corner, bordered by the River, Carondelet, and the suburb of LeMay, MO. On the other side of that corrugated metal fence is J&S Auto Parts. The neighborhood had a ton of cool architecture, and looks to have loads of potential for redevelopment. A great writeup on it can be found here: www.stlouiscitytalk.com/posts/2010/01/patch-neighborhood
While shadows were admittedly all over the place through here, this shot turned out pretty well, and between showing off an urban, industrial neighborhood, and standard-cab EMDs with Baby Wings, I decided to roll with it.
Interestingly, the 1478 began life as a Western Maryland GP40, before going to the SP in the 90's as 40M-2 rebuild fodder. Honestly, I wouldn't have guessed that there were any WM units on the UP roster, let alone many places these days.
Railroading in the Patch
Union Pacific's St. Louis-DeSoto, MO local, the LSE57 is about to roll over Cortois St. in St. Louis' gritty south side neighborhood known as the Patch. This is in the city's extreme southeast corner, bordered by the River, Carondelet, and the suburb of LeMay, MO. On the other side of that corrugated metal fence is J&S Auto Parts. The neighborhood had a ton of cool architecture, and looks to have loads of potential for redevelopment. A great writeup on it can be found here: www.stlouiscitytalk.com/posts/2010/01/patch-neighborhood
While shadows were admittedly all over the place through here, this shot turned out pretty well, and between showing off an urban, industrial neighborhood, and standard-cab EMDs with Baby Wings, I decided to roll with it.
Interestingly, the 1478 began life as a Western Maryland GP40, before going to the SP in the 90's as 40M-2 rebuild fodder. Honestly, I wouldn't have guessed that there were any WM units on the UP roster, let alone many places these days.