Running 30 minutes late, Amtrak train 314 departs from a town in central Missouri behind P42DC 66, belching smoke and temporarily drowning out the music from the town’s Octoberfest celebration, ... (more)

IDTX 4605 departs Kirkwood with the eastbound River Runner.

Amtrak 314 arrives in Kirkwood, MO as the engineer gives a friendly blast of the horn.

IDTX 4623 starts to lean in the corner at Smithton, Mo as the 314 River Runner motors on east across the Show-Me-State.

The days of seeing a P42 leading the Missouri River Runner seem to have faded to the history books. IDTX 4623 is on point of the eastbound 314 River Runner. Not far from it's station stop of Sedal... (more)

The Missouri River Runner waits for its morning departure time at Kansas City.

AMTK 184 thunders east through Smithton, Mo while on point of the 314 Missouri River Runner.

Amtrak Train 314 takes off after a brief station stop at the 1890 Ex-Mo-Pac Depot, 4 minutes late on a cool October morning on the UP Sedalia Sub. The hogger gave us a pretty good horn show as he... (more)

Amtrak Train #314, the Missouri River Runner is about 10 minutes into its trip to St. Louis as it makes its way through Sheffield on KCT Main Track 1 at the KCS Crossing. In about 3 miles the tra... (more)

Amtrak Train #314 has just dropped off its passengers, including me, and blasts out of town towards St. Louis from Kansas City. The Phase 2 Heritage Unit on the point was a nice treat as well. <... (more)

Phase II heritage engine 66 spent two months in captive service on the Missouri River Runners between St. Louis and Kansas City. It is seen here accelerating train 314 away from its station stop i... (more)

Back in the locomotive rotation for Amtrak's Missouri River Runner passenger service. AMTK 66 passes MP 192 on the former MoPac Sedalia Subdivision. The train is not far from the subdivisions name... (more)

After spending time on the Amtrak Exhibit Train on display in KC, the F40PH NPCU, AMTK 406, was put into service on the Missouri River Runners, and leads Amtrak Train #314 east into the morning su... (more)

Amtrak train #314, the eastbound Missouri River Runner, departs Hermann, Missouri, on October 5th, 2014 - and in the process it briefly drowns out the music from the town's Octoberfest cele... (more)

Amtrak's Ph. II hertiage engine leads the morning eastbound River Runner through the quiet little town of Otterville as it heads east toward Jefferson City and then continuing on to St Louis.