The Central Midland Railway
The Central Midland Railway is a Stand-Alone Subsidiary of The Indiana Railroad. This is the newest Railroad in the St. Louis area. It has a Long and Colorfull history. The line was built by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. When the the Rock Island Shut down all operations in Mid 1980, the line was sold to the St. Louis-Southwestern, a Subsidairy of Southern Pacific Transportation Co.. However, the line was of Union, Missouri was never used by the SP. The SP operated the line out of a Small yard on Lackland Rd in St. Louis County. On 9-11-96, the SP was merged into the Union Pacific, who operated the line for a time with a former D&RGW GP30. In Mid 2000, the line was sold to the Missouri Central, who brought in a Former Alaska Railroad GP8. In 2004, the line was leased to the Indiana Railroad, who replaced the GP8 with a Puducha GP10. The GP10 has since been replaced with 2 HLCX former Apalichicola Northern SW1500's. The Former Missouri Central now works for Respondek Rail Corp. on the Former Melvin Price Military base in Granite City, IL.
HLCX 1522
HLCX 1522 shoves a cut of 3 boxcars into Smurfit-Stone in Chesterfeild, MO off of Goddard Av. on 11-16-2006
HLCX 1522 has shoved the cars into Smurfit-Stone and is ready shove deeper into the building in order to spot the cars. 11-16-2006
HLCX 1523
HLCX 1523, the normal Chesterfeild switcher, runs alongside a Parking lot the connects to Edison Road. The Line ends 4 car lengths to the right of the picture. 10-20-2006
HLCX 1523 is making good time on the Main Line. The train is crossing Wild Horse Creek and is about to Cross Long road. In less then a Mile, the train will stop to go down the spur Smurfit-Stone.
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