The action is almost nonstop through the Santa Fe Junction area on Kansas City Terminal trackage as a southbound BNSF coal load passes under a UP coal empty.

A slow rolling Tulsa, OK to Kansas City, KS manifest eases through the Olathe connection towards the Emporia Sub for the remaining miles to Argentine Yard.

The Wabash heritage unit eases down the hill into the Kansas River valley while running on an approach indication following an eastbound Q train into Argentine Yard.

One of the more photographed locations in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area, the West Bottoms is another hub for activity with BNSF and UP trains along with transfers from the NS and KCS r... (more)

The nightly transfer from BNSF's Argentine Yard to KCS' Knocke Yard pulls up to a stop at Santa Fe Junction. If it wasn't for the current BNSF paint scheme on the first two units you could pretend... (more)

It seems like a quarter of the NS heritage fleet is on the BNSF system these days thanks to runthrough oil trains to/from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota but occasionally one wanders off and... (more)

General Electric meets Chevrolet as the DP on an El Paso, Texas bound grain train rolls past "Cruise Night" in Parkville, MO.

Today's Kansas City, KS to Denver, CO manifest sports a GE ES44C4 leading a KCS ES44AC through Merrick, just west of Emporia, KS.

An Alliance, TX Z train rolls west across the bridge spanning the Cottonwood River just east of Gladstone siding.

Two "new image" GE ES44DCs lead a Logistics Park Chicago, IL to Long Beach, CA stack train up through the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas.

A clean SD70ACe leads a westbound grain train through the crossovers at Ellinor and on to the single track section of the Emporia Sub. Two GEs are on the rear as distributed power.

Red Rock, Oklahoma bound coal loads roll over the Cottonwood River bridge just east of the siding at Gladstone right after sunrise.

A Marion, SD to Texas City, TX ethanol load eases through a slight sag at Cassoday on its way to the Gulf Coast.

Los Angeles, CA bound stacks roll by the west end of the siding at Matfield Green on their way to the next crew change point at Wellington, KS.

Four GEs in four different paint schemes lug an Kansas City, KS to Oklahoma City, OK extra manifest up the 0.4% grade through the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas.