Three of MP's burly GP50s are westbound on a hazy summer afternoon.

St Genevieve was definitely an out-of-the-way place on the MP. The small yard and engine house (which was filled with GP15s when I visited) were, I think, holdovers from MO & IL days, and tucked ... (more)

Five geeps and a GEBB sit on the engine ready tracks in Coffeyville. That's the railroad YMCA in the background.

Salina was on a looping branch off MP's Pueblo main, and normal service in the early 1980s was a local with a geep or two and a handful of cars. When grain was moving, MP would send as-needed ext... (more)

GP15-1 on a local out of Coffeyville has a split personality.

After watching two trains pass on the mainline, the lowly Jackson local gets a chance to move. No cars on their train, but they do have a shiny recently refurb'd cab and a nearly-new GP38-2 for p... (more)

Yard power sits as GP38-2 2256 and three SD40s take 110 cars toward Kansas City.

Shiny, year-old 4653 leads two of MP's oldest and dustiest U23Bs on a freight out of St Louis. This train came down the line on the 'Missouri side' through Bismarck. The line peeling off to the ... (more)

MP 2300 is less than a year old, but still draws less than glamorous assignments, like working the Salina branch. The crew will perhaps make a run down to the Pueblo main at Gypsum, and that will... (more)

I think these GP38s and their cab are headed to Illinois, but I cannot remember which bridge this is.

On the former MP Pueblo line, an eastbound is in the hole to meet an opposing empty coal train. It's a beautiful spring day, so everybody seems to be on the ground to give the coal train a good l... (more)

Jim Mirabelli photo.

When the SD50s and C36-7s were new, it seemed that MP/UP made an effort to run the two new types together, but - for a while, at least - to not mix them with older C-Cs. Here, a trio of new SD50s... (more)

Somehow these new C36-7s have made it all the way to southeast Kansas without even getting any grime on the plows.

After running to the power plant via BN's ex-SLSF River Line, an empty Union Electric unit coal train waits for a crew to head back to the MP main at Illmo. In the distance, the southbound BN loc... (more)