What will become Amtrak Train #991 sits at KC Union Station in Track 30 after pulling ahead to water the passenger cars. The consist was Viewliner Sleeper, "Pacific Cape", "Beech G... (more)

Freshened up Warbonnet B40-8W leads NS Train D70 towards BNSF Argentine Yard through Santa Fe Jct. on the KCT North-South Corridor off Track 80 from NS Voltz Yard.

Locomotives: BNSF 558, BNS... (more)

UP 844 and UP 2010 bring the Shiloh Limited down the UP Chester Sub. at South Mesler, just north of Bell City, headed towards Marion, AR. The special ran as UP Train SSLWM 28 today, and the UP 84... (more)

Rolling into my hometown, passing the Missouri Pacific Depot under restoration and through CP Y165 4th Street of the UP Hoxie Sub., is an elephant style EMD quartet composed of 3 SD9043MAC's with ... (more)

The Milwaukee Road S3 is in charge of a Friends of the 261 Trip, running on the BNSF Wayzata Sub. over the Mississippi River Main Channel en route to TC&W Rails at Cedar Creek Jct. for a Fall Colo... (more)

A face that, well, everybody can love will once again be heading up trains all over the UP System. Unit was overhauled at North Little Rock Jenks Shop, painted on 9-2-10.

A pair of high nosed GP38s gets ready to take a transfer from KCS Knoche Yard to NS Avondale Yard in North Kansas City. Pretty sweet set of engines to look at but it must suck to run them and look... (more)

Amtrak Train 21 makes its station stop at Poplar Bluff on the UP Hoxie Sub. at 03:48, which was 4 hours, 6 minutes late. The train had quite the inflated consist tonight with 3 units, 15 cars, 8 ... (more)

Mike Haverty would be glad to see two of his empires posed side by side. The Santa Fe, and the KCS. The special on the right for Mr. Haverty was tacked onto the rear of Amtrak and ran around the... (more)

The engineer and fireman on the ATSF 3415 compare time and orders before taking charge of the 1919 built Pacific Type Baldwin 4-6-2.

Locomotive: ATSF 3415, ASV 4

10-3-15
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The Abilene & Smoky Valley Railway 11:00 A.M. train heads towards Enterprise with ATSF 3415 stomping out of town way with her authentic Santa Fe 6 Chime Steam Whistle blowing for the crossing. Yo... (more)

This Fort Riley, KS Army move passing through the KC West Bottoms is UP Train SASFR 21, which started out as NS 056, and was interchanged to the UP at East St. Louis. Working State Line Yard to t... (more)

Freshly painted BNSF ES44C4 sits outside Mid-America Car & Locomotive. It emerged from MAC earlier today, having went into the shop in primer.

After being towed to Glencoe by TCWR 2300 the 261 has just arrived back in Chanhassen to allow this evening's Dinner Train Passengers to disembark. The steam engine will pull the consist back to ... (more)

At CP Charlie on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub., the dispatcher has instructed this pair of trains to swap crews before continuing south, and they are in the process of that activity now.