Vintage St Louis Area Railroading 1989

Heres some vintage 1989 St Louis railroading first off we have a Northbound Amtrak train in East St Louis,IL headed for Chicago. Then we have a ICG caboose hop with a couple SD40 locomotives. Thats my late friend John Chantiz blowing the Nathan M3 at the light power. Then we see Norfolk Southern Northbound freight at Granite City, IL. Next up is a Southbound Amtrak train with the class F40PH # 200 ! Then a Southbound NS freight train with a nice P5 shows up. Next we go to Downtown St Louis where we watch a MKT train pass by with a GP39-2 and a couple GP38's. Then we see the same Southbound Amtrak with the # 200 again. At the time this was made I was just begining my career with Amtrak as a student Locomotive Engineer and my friend John knew a guy who was the diesel foreman for the MKT and he let me play with a set of 3 light engines for a while. I think I was only about 26 years old at the time.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

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• Train
• horn
• Amtrak
• ICG
• Norfolk
• Southern
• MKT
• Katy
• Leslie
• Nathan
• K5LA

[NSwannabeEngineer]

Loving that K5LA on that IC train.

[slybrdsngjr]

Both of thems are Nathan AirChime P5's, sounds like the first one might have been a NC P5, and the other P5LAC?

[granskare]

I think the use of 'vintage' is a bit much here :) but nice to see these trains.

[mrtrainboy019]

4:52 This beast is still alive! Even more than 20 years!

[howardkevinm]

since when is 1989 vintage? so now the 80s are the "Olden days"?

[xtremepadrefan]

when in 1989 was this shot

[gaycowboy31]

that IC unit sounds like a K5LA

[NorthFolkSouthern960]

3:09 What type of horn is that?

[Maxqstl]

i use to live not far from Gateway yard and cone yard it was amazing to see alll the action coming thru there

[Cristianoefc]

Really nice man!

[VancouverAdventures]

Heavy Horn 4:56

[csx2295]

I don't even remember if 3023 have a Mars Headlight the first Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8529 did have a Mars Headlight and all of the engines belonging to Rio Grande still have the Mars Headlight and the last time i saw another Rio Grande engine again there was no Mars Headlight only one working headlight the ditch lights replaced the Mars on SP's and Rio Grande's engines anymore.