Working the Anheuser-Busch Brewery - a photo on Flickriver

            Prairie Line Railway MP15DC 1001 emerges from the 168-year old (1852 built) Anheuser-Busch brewery complex in St. Louis, MO, with a single empty hopper in tow. The Prairie Line took over switching operations at Anheuser-Busch earlier this year from Patriot Rail, and from how I understand it is the rebranded FTRL (Foster Townsend Rail) operation that gave this line up to Patriot Rail a few years ago. The brewery receives a variety of products for different drinks in hoppers, including hops, wheat, barley and more. The company also ships beer in boxcars to distribution centers in LaPorte, TX and Aurora, CO, the boxcars for which are loaded in the warehouse South East of the plant (right behind and to the left of the photographer). The brewery is serviced several times a day depending on plant needs as only a handful of cars can be spotted at a time. The spur runs down Dorcas Street, if only for a block and a half, and is the last bit of street trackage of the Manufacturers Railway system that once branched throughout the streets of downtown St. Louis. The Manufacturers Railway was owned by the brewery (and actually founded by Anheuser-Busch in 1887) but was given up in 2011 when AB stopped shipping beer by rail. Back then FTRL took over operations and since then has managed to win back at least some of the outbound boxcar traffic. St. Louis, MO
   

Taken on: August 10, 2020

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Camera: Canon EOS 6D, f/8.0, 1/640 sec, 78mm, ISO 160 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 6D
Lens:	EF70-200mm f/4L USM
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/640)
Focal Length:	78mm
ISO:	160
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Manual
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 (Windows)
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