Just minutes after sunset, an eastbound coal train passes Union Station in Kansas City, MO on August 30, 2021.

Blue hour sets in over Kansas City, MO as two manifest trains meet near Union Station on a humid August 29, 2021.

Rolling along in the late afternoon sun of August 31, 2021, Union Pacific Big Boy number 4014 arrives at Union Station in Kansas City, MO. It will rest on display at the station for a day before c... (more)

BNSF Train V PHXKCK4 09A climbs up onto the Hannibal Bridge on Track 80 making its way to NS Avondale Yard.

Below, UP Train YKS97 11 rolls east on UP KC Metro Sub. Main Track 1, home rails... (more)

A spectacular sunset explodes in the western sky behind UP Train 2CNRFG 04 passing over Santa Fe Jct. on the KCT Kaw River Bridge High Line. This would have been fine without the train, but sure,... (more)

A snoot nose leader and an equally clean stablemate complete a pair of SD40N's (SD40-2's overhauled that include ZTR's NEXSYS III-i microprocessor-based control system) lead two other road units o... (more)

The UP 844 creeps away past a lineup of modern UP power at Armourdale Yard in Kansas City, Kansas.

A new SD70ACe heads up BNSF Train E PAMETM0 101, a coal empty tied down at 30th Street on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. on Main Track 1.

It might be a 5 pack of SD70Ms, but the power for UP Train ZTUG4 22 is music to any EMD fan's ears as it hums and growls across the KCT High Line at State Line Jct.

Making its debut on the Kansas City Terminal, topping the Sheffield Flyover is the NS Pennsylvania Heritage Locomotive leading BNSF Train Q NYCLAC1 01A. This is only the PRR's second appearance i... (more)

A Chicago and North Western freight approaches the gooseneck while rumbling through West Bottoms in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 16, 1990. The train is passing some additional C&NW power, t... (more)

The Kansas City Skyline looms in the distance as former TP&W 2011 gets drizzled on at BNSF 10th Street Yard. This unit started life for the "Tip-Up" in October 1978, and ran around as ATSF 2380 fo... (more)

A colorful UP Train IDUSE 01 heads through the KC West Bottoms led by a decent set of engines on the UP KC Metro Sub. Just to the left of the lead unit is Doc's Caboose, where some purchases were... (more)

Just 25 miles from Sibley, and 2 hours and 25 miles later, our wait expires as BNSF Train U NSDETT4 25A and the Reading Unit makes its next passage, marking its first time through Kansas City Unio... (more)