A Kansas City Terminal transfer job passes through Santa Fe Junction using recently-delivered Kaw River Railroad SD60M 6032 (formerly UP 2373/6218). The train is using the lower level of the doub... (more)

A Kansas City Southern SW1500 has a string of boxcars in tow as it waits to head back to Knoche Yard after working the industrial park north of the yard in Kansas City, Missouri.

Santa Fe SD45-2 5704, recently restored to its Bicentennial glory, sits at Kansas City's Union Station, where throngs of railfans have gathered to take night photos of this fifth of Santa Fe's fiv... (more)

Tuesday evening, I ran out to Kansas City with the intention of sticking around long enough to get some night shots, and imagine my surprise when Stephen Priest, and his crew from https://www.clas... (more)

Tuesday evening, I ran out to Kansas City with the intention of sticking around long enough to get some night shots, and imagine my surprise when Stephen Priest, and his crew from https://www.clas... (more)

Using a pair of GE's for power, a Pilot/Herder job from Argentine Yard has Santa Fe Bicentennial unit 5704 in tow, soon to be placed on track 27 at KC Union Station for a week of public display du... (more)

Recently restored Santa Fe Bicentennial unit 5704 poses near Kansas City Union Station on Flag Day, on display during the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society convention.

Santa Fe Bicentennial SD45-2 5704 on display at Kansas City Union Station

After retiring the gas turbine locomotives, the Union Pacific initially donated #18 to the Smokey Hill Railway & Historical Society. The locomotive languished along the former MoPac Coffeyville S... (more)

A southbound freight climbs out of the Blue River Valley on the east side of Swope Park.

A half dozen SD units lift a southbound freight out of the Blue River Valley on the highline route built in 1928.

A pair Kansas City Southern GEVO's lead a southbound grain train as they climb the grade out of Kansas City, Missouri and soar across the valley on the 875 foot long 63rd Street Trestle.

It's a busy morning on the west end of KCS's Knoche Yard in Kansas City, Missouri with four jobs shuffling around or waiting to make moves. A yard job with SW1500 4368 is working the Batliner Pape... (more)

BNSF train U-FTMKCK1-16 (a Fort Madison, IA to Kansas City, KS unit train of wind generators) pauses at the railroad's 10th Street Yard. The train is headed for interchange with the Union Pacific... (more)

It is 4:40 pm (16:40) and, as happens so often in the Midwest, a thunderstorm is blowing into town. The first band of rain has let up as a trio of Union Pacific AC4400CWs (5921, 6807 and 6789) pu... (more)