A Blue Island to KC auto train drifts downgrade between Ethel and Marceline on the Marceline Sub. These old style ex-Santa Fe signal bridges are about all done being in active service on the Marce... (more)

Loaded DDG grain train probably from the IAIS at Silvis, bound for Eagle Pass, TX, drop downgrade pass MP 336 on the Marceline Sub. The train ducks under one of the few remaining signal bridges le... (more)

Between Ethel and Marceline the BNSF's Transcon main skits thru some hilly remote parts on north-central Missouri. Here we have one of the monster stack trains that BNSF runs out of LPC coasting d... (more)

Back in 2000, the BNSF had their power spread all over the system. Interesting merger consists would appear many times. Here a BN and a Santa Fe unit are spliced in between 2 newer BNSF Dash 9's o... (more)

BNSF Dash 9-44CW 1103 pulls a manifest bound for KCK

The number boards are lined up on these locomotives as they makes their way over Cardy Hill near Ethel, Missouri.

A lucky break in the clouds lined up with the arrival of this bare table on the BNSF Marceline Sub.

An NS leader powers it's way through the curves at Hart, Missouri on the BNSF Transcon.

At the time new BNSF ES44C4 6604 leads 11 other units west at a location called Hart on BNSF's former ATSF's Marceline Sub.

High priority manifest train from Galesburg, IL, to Barstow, CA, flow down between Bucklin and Ethel. The train is passing one of the few location where 2 intermediate bridges still are in service... (more)

Although now part of the BNSF, these yet unblemished SuperFleet locomotives are still sporting their Santa Fe Warbonnet pride as they curve downgrade under the intermediate signal bridge at Hart.

Scanned slide from July 2000, shot from Kevin EuDaly's tree stand/foamer stand. Westbound trio of SD40's howl out dynamics brakes as the drift downhill thru Hart, MO, on BNSF Marceline Sub. I miss... (more)