A trio of GEVO's fly a westbound stack train across the Missouri River basin. In early June, the corn crops aren't tall enough to block the view of the raised joint tracks operated by BNSF and NS.... (more)

UP 7715 is in charge of a westbound stack train holding short of the Owensby St. crossing. 7715 is waiting for an eastbound BNSF intermodal to crossover to main to 2 before proceeding toward Kansa... (more)

BNSF 7463 leads another speeding intermodal westbound past the old Santa Fe art-deco-style Amtrak station in La Plata.

Amtrak 124 leads #4 into La Plata a few minutes ahead of schedule.

The Chicago, IL, to Los Angelus, CA, premium stack train blasts west out of Ft. Madison with a match set of GP60M's. This train is about to pass under highway 61 few miles west of Ft. Mad.

Run thru Conrail power has this westbound auto parts train on the BNSF rolling past the intermediate signal just west of Revere. Revere is located just 23 miles west of Ft. Madison, IA.

BNSF 7554 leads a speeding intermodal train westbound just outside La Plata, MO on a warm New Years Eve.

UP 8457 leads the AGBML 23 flying down BNSF's Marceline Sub a few miles west of WB Junction, where the NS Kansas City District joins the BNSF in route to KC. The NS again splits off at CA Jct and ... (more)

A trio of GEVO's leads a long intermodal train (with two more GEVO's pushing on the rear) down the Transcon into the tiny town of La Plata, MO.

The Southwest Chief blast thru the crossovers at Argyle in the late evening. Couple BNSF Z-trains are in a holding pattern on Main #2 while the Dispatcher keeps the silver streak moving on time we... (more)

The uniformity of an empty grain train gleams in the morning sunlight. This empty is east of Wyaconda rolling east towards Galesburg and points north.

A Union Pacific trackage rights train rolls west at sunrise west of West Medill. UP has few pairs of trains that run over the BNSF east of Kansas City to Chicago or Edelstein.

An Eddyville, IA, loaded corn syrup train is bound for the west as they pass thru the control point at Argyle. Alot of these trains go to Coke-A-Cola for soda pop making. This train is running in ... (more)

An empty grain train bound for the CN at East Dubuque, IL, rolls downhill thru the control point at Gorin. This train is bound for loading at Ida Grove, IA, and will head east to Galesburg on the ... (more)

With a new crew on board, this westbound Q-train takes off from Ft. Madison on main #2. The BNSF uses the Ft. Madison yard as a block swap for alot of stack train east and westbound. As you can se... (more)