Projects and Stories: Death on the rails: 08-CD-DC-Trains-Tressel-wide-1-

A pair of pedestrians walk across a train trestle with a stopped train on it in Castlewood State Park in St. Louis County on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. The trestle was the site of accident in 1999 involving a mother, Jessica Blair, who was killed and her four year-old son, Dillion Blair who was injured. The couple did not want to be identified.Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com

A pair of pedestrians walk across a train trestle with a stopped train on it in Castlewood State Park in St. Louis County on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. The trestle was the site of accident in 1999 involving a mother, Jessica Blair, who was killed and her four year-old son, Dillion Blair who was injured. The couple did not want to be identified.

Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com