St. Louis,
MO

Title	:	Illinois Terminal System (ITS) Highline at Branch Street, looking north, St. Louis, MO.
Date	:	February 11, 1987
Description	:	This 1987 view of the old ITS Highline shows the tracks as they lead up to the McKinley Bridge. The track to the right in the photo is used by Rail Switching Services of Missouri as of this writing in Janaury 2005. The RSSM will bring empty boxcars from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch downtown, and haul them up the right track in the photo to a point where the engine and cars clear the switch. The train is then backed over the left track in the photo and set out along side the highline to the south of Branch Street for pick up by the Norfolk Southern. The RSSM unit will then pick up one or two new boxcars of newsprint and reverse the operation through the maze of tracks and take them to the news- paper downtown on Tucker Boulevard. The tracks are owned by Norfolk Southern according to signage. (See additional photos in the RSSM Album.)