St. Louis

===Railroad service===
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[[File:Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Freight Train.jpg|left|thumb|An eastbound [[Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis]] freight train passing under the Hampton Avenue viaduct.]]
[[Inter-city rail]] passenger train service in the city is provided by [[Amtrak]] at the [[Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center]] downtown. Amtrak trains terminating in the city include the ''[[Lincoln Service]]'' to [[Chicago]] and the ''[[Missouri River Runner (Amtrak)|Missouri River Runner]]'' to [[Kansas City, Missouri]]. St. Louis is an intermediate stop on the ''[[Texas Eagle]]'' route which provides long-distance passenger service between [[Chicago]], San Antonio, and three days a week, to Los Angeles.<ref>amtrak.com</ref>

St. Louis is the nation's third largest freight rail hub, moving Missouri exports such as fertilizer, gravel, crushed stone, prepared foodstuffs, fats, oils, nonmetallic mineral products, grain, alcohol, tobacco products, automobiles, and automobile parts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.missourieconomy.org/pdfs/rail.pdf |title=Rail Freight |last=Brite |first=Tony |publisher=Missouri Economic Research and Information Center |access-date=January 28, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629024300/http://www.missourieconomy.org/pdfs/rail.pdf |archive-date=June 29, 2014 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[Freight rail]] service in St. Louis is provided on tracks owned by [[Union Pacific Railroad]], [[Norfolk Southern Railway]], Foster Townsend Rail Logistics – formerly [[Manufacturers Railway (St. Louis)]], [[Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis]], Affton Trucking,<ref name="afftontrucking.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.afftontrucking.com|title=Affton Trucking|website=Afftontrucking.com|access-date=August 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802103355/http://www.afftontrucking.com/|archive-date=August 2, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[BNSF Railway]].

The [[Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis]] (reporting mark: TRRA) is a [[switching and terminal railroad]] jointly owned by all the major rail carriers in St. Louis. The company operates 30 [[diesel-electric]] locomotives to move railcars around the [[classification yards]], deliver railcars to local industries, and ready trains for departure.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.terminalrailroad.com/About/TRRAHistory.aspx |title=TRRA History |publisher=Terminalrailroad.com |access-date=February 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202102733/http://www.terminalrailroad.com/About/TRRAHistory.aspx |archive-date=February 2, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> The TRRA processes and dispatches a significant portion of railroad traffic moving through the city and owns and operates a network of rail bridges and tunnels including the [[MacArthur Bridge (St. Louis)]] and the [[Merchants Bridge]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.terminalrailroad.com |title=TRRA Home |publisher=Terminalrailroad.com |access-date=February 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201174355/http://www.terminalrailroad.com/ |archive-date=February 1, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> This infrastructure is also used by [[inter-city rail]] and long-distance passenger trains serving St. Louis.