Pacific No. 409 struggles up a 1.7% grade as it leads The Texas Special out of Austin. The train which usually consisted of 12 cars used Missouri Pacific tracks as it left the city southb... (more)
Work train duty
Ex-Conrail 3116 as been on the property for a little over a year, but only bears a small M-K-T decal to identify its new owner. The GP-40 was one of 17 that the Katy bought from Conrail in 1983. I... (more)
Searchlights protect a southbound TOFC train as it leaves the yard in KC.
Westbound train crosses Missouri River at dusk.
Eastbound train skirts the Missouri River bluffs near Rocheport, Mo.
Westbound TOFC along the limestone bluffs overlooking the Missouri River bottoms.
On a damp December 8, 1985, MKT MP15AC No. 57 switches at Glen Park Yard in Kansas City, Kansas, as cabooses from the home road and Soo Line stand by.
What? No way! On a cold New Year’s Eve in 1985, I set out to shoot a train or two on the short but sunny day. I set up at the venerable Brookfield depot, which still had its Milwaukee... (more)
About to cross Old US Highway 59 is the 2:30 P.M. diesel excursion with the Katy RS3M for power.
The MKT and KCS engine and rolling stock fit right in with these Kansas Sunflowers along the Midland Railway.
Lots of MKT equipment stuffed and mounted at the Red River Railroad Museum in Denison Texas.
