A KCS transfer heads through downtown KC, MO while a BNSF stack train heads east and an Amtrak KC-St. Louis train is in the station.

A BNSF coal train heads East on the St. Joe Sub toward KC.

A BNSF DPU on a Georgia Power Plant Scherer train passes through classic brick-building Kansas City.

This is what trains do in KC: meet. It seems to be a city of a dozen junctions, all filled with trains.

BNSF 7761 leads international containers EB through Union Station and under the transformed pedestrian walkway KCS bridge.

KCS 4037 and another Retro-Belle EMD head toward BNSF's Murray Yard with a train of grain empties.

A BNSF DPU shoves on the rear of another BNSF PRB coal drag on the St. Joe sub.

The Grand Hall at Kansas City Union Station. One can only imagine what this place was like when multiple railroads called on this location's facilites.

Loaded UP coal heads into Kansas City. This was the first of 10 different Powder River Basin coal trains I saw on Sept. 2 in the greater KC area.

A loaded UP coal train accelerates out of Bonner Springs after stopping for congestion up the line near Kansas City.

BNSF empty coal passes by the classic Western Auto sign in downtown Kansas City near Union Station. I'm standing on an old KCS bridge that has been turned into a pedestrian walkway (with great ph... (more)

BNSF coal loads moving along the Missouri River flood plain.

Two BN-paint 70MACs lead more coal to KC on the St. Joe Sub.

BNSF coal loads EB through Rushville.

EB coal loads pass through a field of crops near the small Missouri River hamlet of Waldron. It was an interesting power setup with 1 SD70MAC up front and another one the rear in DPU mode. I usu... (more)