7th Street Casino might have 95% slot payback, but I think we scored 100% on this NS Train I39 today with a trio of Geeps for power. Here the train rolls through Block 222 past NS Avondale Yard o... (more)

Pevlar blue paint and the N&W Hamburger Logo adorn the lead unit on NS Train 297, the Norfolk and Western Heritage Unit.

This shade of blue and logo are right at home at 10th Street on the N... (more)

Now on the NS Kansas City District-BNSF Brookfield Sub., Amtrak Train #952 is passing Block 222 at the east end of NS Avondale Yard.

The Iowa Pacific Holdings High Iron Travel rare mileage s... (more)

Yard job NS Train DK22 07 works Midwest Shredding Service near Harlem Interlocking adjacent to NS Avondale Yard.

Locomotive: NS 5231

5-7-15
North Kansas City, MO

An RCO job works the TTX RIP track at NS Avondale Yard with an Ex-Southern High Hood GP38-2. Now there's one type of engine that I really haven't gotten used to being around on a regular basis. ... (more)

A former Phase 2 GP35, now a GP39-3R leads NS Train D70 at Harlem on the NS Kansas City District-BNSF Brookfield Sub. This train is an autorack transfer from NS Voltz Yard to BNSF Argentine Yard,... (more)

A BNSF Yard Job Train heads into BNSF 10th Street Yard as NS Train D70 waits for a release from Argentine and for Ustick Dispatcher to call them down to the light. BNSF 1728 was the trailing unit... (more)

A pair of ex-Warbonnet Dash 9's are the power for NS's D70 transfer of racks from Voltz to Argentine rolling through Ustick on approach to the Hannibal Bridge.

MWRX 201 is positioned outside the Bartlett KCT Elevator in North KC. This former DRGW GP9 is used to switch out unit trains that are loaded at this elevator.

One of the first locomotives to carry Burlington Northern Santa Fe markings was GP39E 2931. No other locomotives wore this exact scheme (BNSF 2911's scheme was similar, but not identical). Worki... (more)

On a nice 70 degree day, six former ATSF dash 8's sit together in storage at BNSF's Murry Yard in North Kansas City, Missouri. Locomotives: BNSF 910, BNSF 930, BNSF 929, BNSF 903, BNSF 949 and BN... (more)

Not to waste available motive power, CB&Q employed motor car 9769 as a PY Yard switcher at North Kansas City, Mo. May 29, 1965.

An ex BN SD60M and an ex ATSF SD40-2 are on the point of NS D70 transfer heading back from Voltz toward Argentine Yard. The train is held out at Avondale waiting to get across the Missouri River v... (more)

UP 8416 is on the point of an NS auto rack train at the west end of Avondale Yard in North Kansas City. The train is waiting to get permission to head across the River and toward UP's Armourdale Y... (more)

An eastbound BNSF train waits short of the NS Road Crossing for a NS/UP passenger special to leave NS Avondale Yard.