Mother Nature dump about 5-8 inches of snow overnight. The next morning roads were a 1 lane farmer's path in spots, but we made our way out and about. County roads were never plowed in this area o... (more)

Mother Nature put a good cold squeeze on the Midwest. Rain ahead of heavy snow stuck to everything facing east. An eastbound "Kick-Gal" slowly works east on the Marceline Sub. They pass ... (more)

The Southwest Chief blazes across the Marceline Sub nearly on time on this wintery morning. The train begins the slow up for a crossover move at Hurdland. The Chief normally does the station work ... (more)

Getting used to Santa Fe rails, a pair of BN motors lead a fast rolling eastbound through the curves in Camden, MO. The venerable wig wag crossing signal here started clanging well before a train ... (more)

Flatland flyer: Amidst an early morning run of traffic in the bottom lands along the Missouri River east of Kansas City, AT&SF 3806 East in the company of two GP60s rips through rural Henrietta, M... (more)

A trio of BN SD40-2s highball Hardin, MO on a May morning. Hardin is located upon a thirty mile segment of joint-track used by BNSF and NS.

Before the Super Fleet Dash8-40BWs arrived, AT&SF had a fleet of Dash8-40B standard cabs in the tasteful blue and yellow warbonnet scheme. Trailing the 7419 is one of predecessor BN's cabless B30-... (more)

Cruising through the Missouri River bottom lands east of Kansas City, NS 9055 West is on joint track with the BNSF as it passes Camden, MO and its wig wag crossing signal.

This crew just boarded this North Bay Z-train 7 miles back at Fort Madison. The crew has the throttle in the left corner as they get their legs stretch out on the Marceline Sub. The train passes u... (more)

A Logistic Park Kansas to Willow Spring hotshot races across the Marceline Sub. The train makes good time on the fairly flat section of trackage between CA Jct and Marceline. Here is passes a farm... (more)

A stack train out of Clovis rolls off east on the Marceline Sub after letting Amtrak by at Hardin. The train wakes up the small quite town of Norborne with its freight bound for Logistics Park nea... (more)

A Blue Island to San Bernardino auto train works west on the Marceline Sub. The train passes under a skeleton ex-Santa Fe signal bridge near Bucklin. Few of these bridges made into late 2019 befor... (more)

An ATSF Warbonnet passes by the last remaining set of ATSF Searchlights on the Marceline Sub.

Racing around from Missouri to Iowa trying to fight the sunset, we barely made it here to Argyle as this westbound Willow Springs to North Bay Z-train casually rolls thru town. This train is makin... (more)

I don't get it! The railroads spend all kinds of effort to combo trains to save crew starts, and then they run engine trains around? Could of added 4 units to couple trains on the way by KC and sa... (more)