After meeting a deadheading Officer Special headed towards Topeka, the Boeing Special, BNSF Train J WICKCK9 01A comes through Morris on the BNSF Emporia Sub. on Main Track 2 behind a single Ex-San... (more)

This is the bar area on SP 2986, a 12-1949 built Pullman Standard Lounge Car. It was converted to an SP Conference Instruction Car #206 in 1971, and used for rules exams. In 1975, it became Conf... (more)

Grinding up to Union Avenue on the KCT is a pair of SW1500s with the BNSF 19th Street Switcher.

Stopped by a UP train sewing up the entire west end of the Terminal, KCT Train 410 cools its heels at 23rd Street on Track 80 with 22 cars from NS Avondale Yard for KCT Mill Street Yard.

Recently released from Mid-America Car, returning to work on the UP, where it will likely be immediately released to the BNSF as horsepower hour payback. For now it sits in Track 7 at KCS Knoche ... (more)

Yes, the date is correct. 1 of the 3 remaining C40-8's on the roster leads UP Train MKCSJ 18 assisted by an Ex-WP GP40-2 as it passes under the CB&Q Searchlight Cantilever Signals at East Armour ... (more)

The conductor is doing paperwork on KCT Train 505 taking advantage of the downtime as the industry job waits for opposing traffic at Sheffield before rolling west up the KCT for 90 Rail to spot 5,... (more)

N&W 611 is now running as NS Train 957 as it brings its 21 car train around the curve and upgrade on the south leg of the wye off the Old Line at Poe.

The dust to the fireman's side of the e... (more)

Rolling into KC on the UP Sedalia Sub. down Independence Hill into Rock Creek Jct. is UP Train SDECB 30 with a pair of brand new SD70ACes and 17 cars. The train left De Soto, MO this morning, and... (more)

Now well underway on this hilly Ex-Frisco Line, grabbing notches coming out of a sag, A&M Train MNTN is making its way back south towards Springdale, AR. The crew of the Monett Turn relieved the ... (more)

Amtrak Train #311 streaks past P-Hill on the UP Sedalia Sub. behind a rare B32-8WH leader. The former Pepsi Cans don't call this territory home very often, and the 500's presence was necessitated... (more)

A BNSF empty coal train crosses the Hannibal Bridge into Kansas City from BNSF Murray Yard in North Kansas City, MO. This train was being detoured via the Ex-ATSF to Colorado before returning nort... (more)

After waiting an hour for two cars worth of hazmat paperwork, KCT Train 105 drags 28 cars back to KCT Mill Street Yard from UP Armourdale Yard past Tower 14 at Adams Street Interlocking with Engin... (more)

An extra split crew on KCT Train 112 dumps ballast on the east end of the KCT Sheffield Flyover with the help of BNSF Engineering Personnel.

It's 53 miles to Kansas City, but the light pollution is evident, even from here on a clear night. In an hour or so, the Fs will highball to KC. You might even notice a streak from the Geminid m... (more)