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Opened in 2008 and operating 24 hours a day, it serves Amtrak trains and Greyhound and Burlington Trailways interstate buses. Missouri's largest rail transportation station, it is located one block east of St. Louis Union Station. Gateway Station cost $31.4 million [a] to build, [5] and after more than a year of delays it fully opened on ...
The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (reporting mark SSW), known by its nickname of "The Cotton Belt Route" or simply "Cotton Belt", was a Class I railroad that operated between St. Louis, Missouri, and various points in the U.S. states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Texas from 1891 to 1980, when the system added the Rock Island's Golden State Route and operations in Kansas ...
The St. Louis region’s port system is the second-largest inland port system in the United States, and was ranked the most efficient port system by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The St. Louis regional port system is responsible for 8% of the 855 miles of the Mississippi River, but carries one-third of the river’s total freight. [42]
MetroLink (reporting mark BSDA) is a light rail system [7] [8] that serves the Greater St. Louis area. Operated by Metro Transit in a shared fare system with MetroBus, [9] the two-line, 38-station system runs from St. Louis Lambert International Airport and Shrewsbury in Missouri to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
St. Louis, Morehouse and Southern Railroad: SLSF: 1899 1904 St. Louis and Gulf Railway: St. Louis and North Arkansas Railway: 1899 1906 Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad: St. Louis, Oak Hill and Carondelet Railway: MP: 1886 1910 Missouri Pacific Railway: St. Louis Railway and Dock Company: St. Louis and St. Joseph Railroad: ATSF: 1868 1874
First introduced in 1980 as the Kansas City Mule and St. Louis Mule, the Missouri River Runner received its current name in 2009. As of 2023, there are two daily round trips between Kansas City and St. Louis, with one continuing north to Chicago Union Station as a Lincoln Service train. These services fall under the Amtrak Midwest brand.
East St. Louis, Columbia and Waterloo Railway [2] East St. Louis and Suburban Railway [2] Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company [2] February 2, 1907 [6] March 10, 1930 [7] Later Elgin, Belvidere and Rockford Railway: Fox and Illinois Union Railway [2] Galesburg Railway, Lighting and Power Company [1] Galesburg and Kewanee Electric Railway [1]
The Red Line is the older and longer line of the MetroLink light rail system in Greater St. Louis.It serves 29 stations across three counties and two states.. While officially light rail, the Red Line has many characteristics of a light metro, rapid transit, or semi-metro service, [1] including an independent right-of-way, a higher top speed, and level boarding at all platforms.