Barker, Lesley

For the photographer of rail images, the St. Louis Gateway of the 1970s provided abundant opportunities to record rolling stock of many railroads, extant and fallen flags alike. Most of the images in this book were photographed by John F. Barker, whose Representative Collection of Trains in St. Louis 1900 to 1990 is a permanent exhibit of the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Barker used the images to create accurate HO-scale models of trains in St. Louis. The images, too, now belong to the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library.