On a partly cloudy July 18, 2021, an SD70ACe leads a southbound KCS manifest train across a small trestle bridge in Siloam Springs, AR.
KCS 4110 leads CP 281 past Morton Grove, over the North Branch of the Chicago River. This shot had always been on my bucket list, but I was never able to make it work up to this point.
The dodger works Neosho customers using a pair of geeps, with an ex-PC unit in the lead.
The KCS westbound freight out of St. Louis had been running afternoons west of Roodhouse. Well that change the 1st week of June when I was there. On Wednesday a complete meltdown created a 12 hour... (more)
The daily northbound Shreveport to Kansas City freight rolls off into the sunset north of Poteau on the Heavener Sub. The train is setup 2x1 DP-d and has a fresh crew onboard that got on at Heaven... (more)
The northbound Shreveport to KC freight is at Heavener getting mechanical inspection and fuel done. The mechincal is done now and is getting the blue flag off the lead motor to release the train f... (more)
The KCS Heavener Sub crosses over the Arkansas River on a massive bridge about 30 miles north of Heavener. Luck would have it the last day the OCS ran early and traffic was busy at day break. Here... (more)
The KC to Shreveport freight makes good time as they roll over the Sallisaw Creek just outside of Bunch. The train is working south between Marble Rock and Cave Springs on the KCS Heavener Sub. Th... (more)
The Shreveport to KC freight makes good time as they roll over the Sallisaw Creek just outside of Bunch. The train is working north between Cave Springs and Marble Rock on the KCS Heavener Sub. T... (more)
The Heavener Sub rolls south out of the Ozark Mountains towards the Arkansas River Valley. The railroad has 100 miles of Oklahoma running as they drop down from the 1321 feet summit at Gentry, AR,... (more)
Stormy Weather Standing, hoping, awesome gust front and super dramatic sky and the train an eastbound sand working with EMD SD70ACE 4117 was slow, make that really slow.. after... (more)
Two NS 090`s tied up at Webb.
Kansas City Southern SD70MAC #3973 leads NS intermodal train 24E past Jac Mac nearing its destination of Inman Yard.
KCS 4004 is the DPU on a westbound empty BNSF coal train.
Kansas City Southern ES44AC 4470, teamed with BNSF ES44DC 7792, is hustling BNSF train Q-PEALAC1-30A (a 59 car, 4783 ton, 5767-foot Guaranteed Service Intermodal train heading from Pearland TX to ... (more)
Q-PEALAC rounds the curve at Esperanza behind a KCS leader. It's not easy to find a more rural angle on the San Bernardino Sub, with urban, suburban, and industrial scenes being the norm on the tr... (more)
Sunset shot of NS Military Train #090 leaving Meridian, MS. Pretty fitting that they ran this train on Independence Day weekend!
In an extremely rare appearance, a pair of KCS units lead a train in this area. A KCS ES44AC and an ACe lead NS 6W4 east through Northfork on the Whitethorne district. It has been over two years s... (more)
westbound military move to Ft. Hood
A pair of visitors from the West (KCS, Ferromex) pull the empty ethanol train back North to fill up with another load of corn gas.
At 0530, KCS train M-NSJA performs a couple of switching moves before heading west to Jackson, MS.
Kansas City Southern's Fort Smith dodger crosses the James Fork river en route to Fort Smith, AR along the former Frisco line.
Glinting in the evening light, a northbound KCS train rolls by Wolf Creek in Benton County, AR on a warm June 13, 2021.
