Gotta do whatcha gotta do. A classic grainer improvisation. OSHA! Oh OSHA!

Heading back from Dodge City, this Cimarron Valley train passes some field sprinklers with its freshly painted D8 leading and a B40 still in CSX colors.

Santa Fe FM H16-44 roadswitchers Nos. 3013, 3005 and 3012 layover at Topeka between runs in September 1968. Photo by Ed Spitzer, part of my slide collection.

A hidden treasure found in the countryside of south Kansas on the Blackwell Northern Gateway Railroad is a former Chessie System SD18. EWLX 7311 was built for the Chesapeake & Ohio in January 1963... (more)

Santa Fe 3415 arrives in Enterprise, Kansas with the 10am train.

An airplane flies over Santa Fe 3415 on a windy day in Abilene, Kansas.

After putting together its tool cars, UP 3985 is ready to depart the fairgrounds where it has been on display for Topeka Railroad Days.

ATSF 3415 departs out of Abilene with the ten o'clock train.

The westbound road train from Belleville, KS passes the former Rock Island depot enroute to Goodland, KS.

The Kyle Railroad has replaced the Cadillac & Lake City as the operator of the former Rock Island across Kansas, bringing former SP&S #320 for motive power.

Brandon Rail was created in 1981 to serve industries on the former Rock Island line between Manhattan, KS and Clifton, KS. The operation lasted less than a year and the line was later abandoned.

One of the hump jobs at BNSF's Argentine Yard outside of Kansas City, Kansas shoves a cut of cars over the hump on an April afternoon. On the point of the set is a former BN triclops SD60M, now de... (more)

SD18 One of only 54 SD18s built for domestic use... This SD18 soldiers on in shortline service in South Haven, Kansas. Built in 1963 and riding on Alco trucks this monster was designed f... (more)

Power off NS 112 spins at Santa Fe Jct., and passes a couple searchlights in the interlocking.