Pair of old dash 9's are working hard to get back up to speed and pull the grade thru West Ethel. The sand train ahead of them had to slow up for a train in emergency. The snow is falling pretty h... (more)

This loaded 2x1 sand train fight the grade up into Ethel. The snow is falling and the train slowly leads the pack of westbounds. This train and 1 other will take main #1 west of here to Marceline,... (more)

Dynamics howl as 2 GEs blaze thru the small town of Elmer on the Marceline Sub. The 2 units fight snow on the rail as San Bernardino bound vehicles push the train at track speed down a .7% grade. ... (more)

Finding someone with priority isn't easy on the BNSF Transcon anymore. Everyone running main #2 here is barely kicking up any snow as they do all their might to go slow and conserve fuel. However ... (more)

Amtrak's Southwest Chief races off from the station stop at La Plata. An odd mid-April snow storm in northern Missouri has everything coated in white. #3 left Chicago less than 5 hours ago and is ... (more)

UP trackage rights over the BNSF Transcon see this Global 4 to City of Industry, CA, Z-train hammering west on the Marceline Sub. The train is about past thru the small town of Rutledge as they ma... (more)

The Santa Fe built into Marceline around 1887. Marceline, came at the request of a director of the new railway whose wife had the Spanish name of “Marcelina.” This depot was built in 1913, and... (more)

Pretty crazy the amount of container traffic up and down the BNSF Transcon. Here San Bernardino traffic bound for Willow Springs make tracks east on the Marceline Sub. The train passes this cool o... (more)

Westbound Ft. Madison, IA, to Pearland, TX, auto train has a neat treat for the afternoon Transcon. A pair of KCS units head up this train as they make their way west on the Marceline Sub just wes... (more)

Westbound Ft. Madison, IA, to Pearland, TX, auto train has a neat treat for the afternoon Transcon. A pair of KCS units head up this train as they make their way west on the Marceline Sub just wes... (more)

The westbound Blue Island, IL to Kansas City, MO, vehicle train has couple NS motors as they hammer west between Bosworth and Carrollton on the BNSF Marceline Sub. Country Rd 314 bridge here over ... (more)

Near MP 369 on the Marceline Sub, the railroad crosses the Grand River on this fairly new bridge that was replaced in 2019. Here we have the hotshot Z-train from Logistic Park Kansas to Willow Sp... (more)

Westbound NS train #115 races west on main #3 a few minutes after sunrise. Between WB Jct and CA Jct the NS and BNSF use joint trackage on the Marceline Sub. Between Hardin and WB Jct there is 3 m... (more)

End of an era...the ex-Santa Fe signals have finally fallen at the end of 2019.There was a few signal bridges along the Marceline Sub that missed the 1st couple rounds of signal upgrades for the P... (more)

A trackage rights UP Z-train out of Global 4 hammers west on the BNSF Marceline Sub at sunset. Leading today's train is somewhat rare Tier 4. Haven't seen many of these units lead in my travels! T... (more)