A pair of Rick Franklin Corporation B23-7's power an Albany and Eastern Railroad job at Portland & Western's Yard, as a job from the home road switches off to the right with a SD7R for power. Wor... (more)

NS Train 33J eases to a stop at De Witt as they wait for NS Decatur Dispatcher to throw the switch a couple times after receiving a failure and a track light at this location.

After receivin... (more)

Switching out industries in the middle of State Line Avenue we take in UP Train YFX54R 27 with a pair of MP15ACs.

UP 844 and UP 1982 are leaving Poplar Bluff after its first visit since 1996 with The Little Rock Express UP Train SCGBK 06. This was during the UP Great Excursion Adventure. The first time I rode... (more)

A 19th Street Switcher rolls down the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. with a switcher, 1 car, and a caboose headed south to do some work.

Baldwin 4-8-2 Mountain, built in 1926 for the Frisco. Engine was restored between 1985 and 1988 and operated in excursion service until September 2002. One of the reasons I came out to the MOT w... (more)

UP 844 and the E9s are now on the UP KC Metro Sub. at North Cypress Jct. on UP Train STPCB 08, where they will head towards the UP Falls City Sub., taking them to Omaha-Council Bluffs this evening... (more)

An EMD quartet brings BNSF Train E PAMETM0 59A up KCT Track 82 at Old Union Depot Interlocking. Esteemed observers might notice the second unit is BNSF 9647, the former one off "Vomit Bonnet... (more)

After spending time on the Amtrak Exhibit Train on display in KC, the F40PH NPCU, AMTK 406, was put into service on the Missouri River Runners, and leads Amtrak Train #314 east into the morning su... (more)

A snoot nose leader and an equally clean stablemate complete a pair of SD40N's (SD40-2's overhauled that include ZTR's NEXSYS III-i microprocessor-based control system) lead two other road units o... (more)

Brand new SD70ACe on the point of UP Train AGBML 14 drops off of the KCT High Line into UP Armourdale Yard where it will do a little work before leaving town.

Lightning from a severe thunderstorm illuminates the sky above Gardner as a Westbound BNSF Loaded Grain Train bears down on a clear signal.

Power for UP Train LSV52 01 sits at Poplar Bluff between feeder bands of Hurricane Isaac's remnants that would spawn tornadoes in the area later on today.

Ex-UP SD40M-2's bring MNA Train KCMNA 09 through Lee's Summit and over the crest of the second major grade they've faced on UP Sedalia Sub. Engineer Tim Whitworth and Conductor Stew Jacobs will s... (more)

Fayetteville Switcher power gets fueled at the diesel shop. The gear on the front end of the C424 is RCO equipment. An OOS M420W of obvious CN heritage sits in the background.

Locomotives:... (more)