Series XXXI: Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis: St. Louis Union Station and surrounding yards

This series consists of photographs of the TRRA's facilities in St. Louis, Missouri. These photographs were submitted to the Commission as Employees' Exhibit 42A, are referred to by the letter P in testimony, and were taken by Raymond Neupert. Mr. Neupert was employed as a locomotive fireman and engineman by the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis and was president of Lodge 21 of the BLF&E. The TRRA is a switching and terminal railroad that handles traffic in the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area. It is co-owned by several class I railroads that reach the city. The formation of the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis grew out of an agreement orchestrated by Mr. Jay Gould in 1889 between predecessor entities of the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis and six proprietary railroads. The Company was created for the purpose of securing to the various owners an efficient and economical method of interchanging passenger and freight traffic over the Mississippi River. The original railroads making up the Association were the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Company, Wabash Railroad Company, the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company. The photographs in this series document the yards and tracks in and around St. Louis Union Station, once the busiest train station in the world. The photographs in this series document the scope and intricacy of the operations in and around this station as well as some of the surrounding neighborhood.