Slam, bang! A four-pack of warbonnets are in full flight as yet another intermodal hotshot sails through rural Camden, MO on a June morn. The old wig-wag crossing signal here would have been clang... (more)

An empty coal train passes through minor flooding near the Mississippi River.

Nightfall In The City | A bit of muted color remains in the sky on the evening of Sunday, May 7, 2023 as a Union Pacific yard transfer train creeps forward, heading east in Kansas City, MO ... (more)

Missouri River Crossing | Heading south across the Missouri River on the Hannibal Bridge, a loaded coal train enters Kansas City, MO (leaving North Kansas City) at a snail's pace on the eve... (more)

Transcontinental Stack Train | One of BNSF's many intermodal trains through Kansas City is headed east on the flyover at Santa Fe Junction, crossing from the Kansas side of town into Missou... (more)

Holding at West Bottoms | A trio of ES44AC engines on the head end of a northbound empty coal train, seen here on May 7, 2023 holding at a dwarf signal (just out of frame to the right), pau... (more)

OBEX coal train back when it seemed like it would last forever. I think I remember saying "If I see one more SD40-2 on a coal train I think I'll toss my cookies." Photo by Gary Zeitler... (more)

It seemed to us that the U-boats and SD40-2s and nicely matched coal trains would last forever but in hindsight it wasn't that long. Photo by Gary Zeitler.

After returning from Mexico, MO, KCS 2967 yards their traffic in Slater, marking the last move this crew will make prior to the CPKC merger.

KCS 2967 and company shatter the silence of the small town known as Gilliam, as the hustle West.

The Slater Local passes through a modern wayside detector on their Westbound return trip from Mexico, MO.

Lead by four locomotives, an exceptionally heavy H-MEMGAL (Memphis to Galesburg) is passing through Gibb siding. The train is loaded with steel coils, steel pipe and I-beams.

On the date the F40PH must have failed and had to be dragged in. I always wondered what happens when HEP fails and there is no backup. Do the cars have some way of generating heat? Important to... (more)

Photo by Gary Zeitler, from my collection. Scapegoat?Maybe. A major wreck was determined to be caused by the trucks, at high speed, so the entire class was scrapped (oops, recycled). I have to ... (more)

The Slater Local has turned out of Mexico, MO, and is heading back West over the Missouri River Bridge at Glasgow. On the next calendar, CPKC was born, making this the last run of the KCS Slater L... (more)