Ending its trip down from Des Moines, IA today is UP Train SDMKC 13, the UP 150 Express, backing into Kansas City Union Station as UP Train AASAMX 13 scoots by on the KCT Main Line.

As a KCS Crew gets ready to take their grain train from the CP south, UP Train SCBSP 21 cools its heels waiting on the outbound crew to show up at around 0230 in the morning at Air Line Jct.

Eastbound BNSF Train Z ABQWSP9 11L hums over the KCT Argentine Connection Flyover on Track AC2, as UP Train 3CNAIM9 10 comes across the KCT High Line on Track 75.

Locomotives: BNSF 8029, BNS... (more)

A pair of trains sit crewless as NS Train D70 gets rolling with a string of autoracks for BNSF Argentine Yard. This job originates at the NS Voltz Yard mixing center and is full of Ford vehicles.... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 leads Amtrak Train #992, a Friends of the 261 Excursion returning from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, MN to Minneapolis. Here the special is traversing the BNSF H... (more)

Headed through Wilson Road on the UP Sedalia Sub. is the River Runner headed for St. Louis with AMTK 10031, the Great Dome “Ocean View” on the rear end. It might be Amtrak, but that car looks... (more)

The 10 AM departure of the Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad's excursion train to Enterprise stomps out of town with Santa Fe 3415 at the head end, kicking off our visit to the 2nd Annual Smoky Va... (more)

NKP 190, an ALCO PA-1 was built during March 1948 for the NYC&STL, better known as the Nickel Plate Road. Doyle McCormack's dad worked for this railroad, and this locomotive was the first diesel D... (more)

Air gauges on UP 844. Notice that the indicators are called "hands" according the gauge faces, rather than needles. The dynamics are really weak on this thing.

KCT Train 112 was in the process of delivering BNSF Train U KCKHKM1 07A to the receiving railroad at Rosedale when we were held up by a stop indication on the east end of the Kaw River Bridge.

Passing over Soldier Creek on the UP Kansas Sub. is the "Trek to Tennessee", UP Train PKCMV2 29 returning to 844's home base of Cheyenne, WY after a visit to Memphis, TN earlier this mon... (more)

An eclectic mix of units brings a transfer from BNSF Argentine Yard to BNSF Murray Yard. It's a good sign when wrapped, two year stored GEs of less than 20 years of age are are bringing up the re... (more)

The Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society's 1944 Lima 2-8-4 Berkshire sits at the Metra Western Avenue Shop after spending the afternoon on display at Franklin Park Fest's Railroad Day. Tomorrow... (more)

Business special UP Train SKCCB 20 rests in Kansas City Union Station along the KCT.

The CNW and DRGW Heritage Locomotives sit at Atchison after bringing UP Train MKCAT 20 up this afternoon and will take the MATKC 21 back tomorrow. Neither of these engines are far from where th... (more)