It is a star filled night in northern Missouri along the Marceline Sub. Sign of changes are still evident as new and old signals stand along the right of way for now. These ex-Santa Fe cantilever ... (more)
Sunset is just about to disappear as night sets in in northern Missouri. A set of crossovers in middle of now where along the Marceline Sub at MP 276, is Gorin. New signal have been cut in to repl... (more)
Back in the Santa Fe days, most the intermediate signals were on bridges like this one along the Marceline Sub. With the changes and upgrades for the coming PTC, only a few intermediate bridges ar... (more)
This Clovis, NM< to Logistic Park, IL, vehicle train passes thru West Medill. At West Medill the new signals are in and working, and the ex-Santa Fe cantilever signal bridges sit and wait for BNSF... (more)
An era is starting to come to an end on the ex-Santa Fe mainline. With the upgrade to the signal system for upcoming PTC, BNSF has been replacing alot of older signals along their network. Here ex... (more)
BNSF 6546 and 3 other brand new C4's lead a hot westbound intermodal across the flat Missouri River flood plains.
After a crew change in Fort Madison, a westbound land barge rolls over the humps in the rural area around Bricker, IA. The Santa Fe signal bridge here is living on borrowed time, and is one of onl... (more)
BNSF 7477 is on the point of an eastbound stack train barreling through Carrollton on the way to the Chicago area.
Amtrak's Southwest Chief flies through Carrollton, MO, a classic mid-western set up of a town. Single main grade crossing bracketed by an elevator on one side and a station on the other. Train no.... (more)
Dwarfed by an elevator, BNSF 7024 leads a hot eastbound Z-train made up of mostly UPS trailers and containers at Carrollton, MO on this former Santa Fe mainline. Almost like clockwork, you can cat... (more)
BNSF 7477 is on the point of an eastbound stack train barreling through the middle of Carro,llton on this former Santa Fe mainline.
BNSF 7019 is the lone leader on the point of an eastbound stack train blasting through town on a quiet Sunday morning. The bridge abutment to the left is the remnants of the Wabash main to Des Moi... (more)
BNSF 4516 and two other motors lead a hot Z-train east through the La Plata Crossovers still protected with Santa Fe searchlights.
Amtrak's Southwest Chief rolls in for a station stop at La Plata as a storm pushes through to the east.
BNSF 5070 leads a westbound manifest under the Santa Fe signal bridge that guards the east control point in the sub's namesake town.