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Actual departure starts at 3:23, skip to there if you want the departure. NS 8100, the NKP heritage unit, made its way through the St. Louis area today. It stopped over in Luther Yard (North St. Louis) to drop off and pick up containers on its way to Georgia (NS train 223). I waited for over an hour for it to depart. The clouds and lighting changed drastically from when 223 was switching to when 223 departed. The first two clips are of the power reversing back into the yard; there's a lot of GE compressor noise, as well as some really good throttle noise as the three GE's work to charge the air brakes.

I got more photos (by far) of 4014 of its recent 2021 visit to St. Louis than video, but I did manage to get these two: The first clip is near Chester, IL, as the train runs over my GoPro. The second is two days later (August 30th), as the train rolls through Valley Park, after leaving St. Louis.

With the fall leaves coming down, a CSX Office Car Special speeds towards St. Louis. The location is just outside of Troy, IL, on the old Pennsylvannia/Vandalia line. The OCS was hitting 60 as it came through. The locomotives and cars looked really good in their B&O-inspired paint scheme.