The Phase IV unit takes a break during a crew change at Kansas City Union Station.

KCS Retro Belles (and a few gray units) rest at the diesel shop at the end of the day, but as most anybody reading this knows, a railroader's day might only be dawning as the sun goes down.

Transfer freight from BNSF Argentine Yard to NS Avondale Yard, BNSF Train Y KCK2121 27T, rolls up KCT Track 81 at St. Louis Avenue in the KC West Bottoms before taking on the grade up The Goosenec... (more)

4081 has a few battle scars, but is one of the better units on the MNA Roster, and this Ex-Missouri Pacific Veteran slugs it out daily moving tonnage over home rails where the eagles once flew.

The Southern Belle negotiates a S-Curve just west of Marshall on the KCS Mexico Sub. on its way to East St. Louis to check out the new work done along their route in the St. Louis area.

Blasting up the hill out of UP Lesperance Street Yard onto the TRRA for 12th Street Yard is UP Train YSL53 20 with 49 cars and a more than interesting consist. Couldn't ask for a better leader. ... (more)

They're only new once! A quartet of ES44C4's bring BNSF Train Z ALTWSP9 21A past the former Santa Fe station site of Zarah, KS on the BNSF Emporia Sub. on their first revenue run. These engines,... (more)

Headed west on the UP Sedalia Sub. is the "Missouri River Eagle" bound for the Sedalia, Missouri Sesquicentennial later today as UP Train SSLSD 09. This might be my favorite picture of the trip.

After a brief stop to pick up a passenger, KCS Train B-KCSH-17 is again underway. Bound for Heavener, OK for the night, the trip is inspecting MOW work done during recent all day curfews on this ... (more)

An indescribably stunning ALCO C424 and T6 combo teams up on the A&M Springdale Switcher, and the hogger cleans them out for us while dragging out a cut of cars to kick. THIS is railroading, kids... (more)

With a consist unlike anything I've seen in a number of years, KCS Train H-SHKC-17 makes its way up the KCS Pittsburg Sub. with 6 (count em, 6) standard cabbed EMDs. Where else are you going to f... (more)

A pair of clean locomotives on the North and South Ramp Tracks #201 and 202 accurately represent that Knoche Yard is a joint agency facility, shared by Kansas City Southern and Canadian Pacific.

The 1944 Milwaukee Road S3 is in charge of a Friends of the 261 Trip seen here passing over Market Avenue on the TCWR Glencoe Sub. for a Fall Color Excursion out of Minneapolis Jct. to Glencoe and... (more)

Now moving right along, UP Train IDULB 06 makes haste in its exodus from Kansas City behind the SP Heritage Locomotive, moving through the West Bottoms on UP KC Metro Sub. Main Track 1 past the St... (more)

UP 844 and UP 2010 bring the Shiloh Limited down the UP Jonesboro Sub. at CP CB055 North Malden, headed towards Marion, AR. The special ran as UP Train SSLWM 28 today, and the UP 844 is in charge... (more)