The highlight of the trip? It was very likely this. Just north of the A&M shops, we see this ex-N&W ALCO T6 kicking cars in the Springdale, AR yard. While the road trains had the bigger power, t... (more)

Happy 4th of July from NS' Avondale Yard in North Kansas City! I took these from the parking garage at the North Kansas City Hospital, along with quite a few others, who strangely, seemed less int... (more)

Well, thanks to the beginning of a LOOONG weekend, I finally got around to shooting Amtrak's Phase III Cabbage #406 on the Mule (Amtrak train #313) last night. Due to the platform work at the depo... (more)

Well, it has been a long time coming, but the Rock Island E's at MAC have finally shown themselves in the sunlight outside of the shop. My grandpa worked on both of these engines when he was worki... (more)

In town with the KCS Christmas train which is over by the station, KCS 1 and the Southern Belle business train rest outside of Kansas City Union Station on 12/17/2015. In the background, Amtrak t... (more)

Oh, you're gonna put the red & silver one on the point of the O-train? OK. For all of the business trains that I've seen around Topeka over the years, this is the first one that I've ever se... (more)

Saturday, after a GREAT night of blues, beer and BBQ at BB's Lawnside BBQ, I took a stroll up to Knoche Yard to see what I could manage of the Belle that was in town. Sure enough, I had just enoug... (more)

Rocky Lives! This great looking relic of Great Northern's Big Sky Blue era has been hidden away in BNSF's Topeka, KS yard for a few weeks now (mp51w first tipped me off to it), but has seemingly... (more)

One of the last SD70MACs built for the Burlington Northern (#9708, built 12-1995) suns itself in Topeka, KS on the former business car track, while the recently arrived LNG test set hangs out by t... (more)

For what has been a perpetually bland operation, Chicago's Metra roster has become fairy diverse in a hurry. Here, three different faces of the roster lay over in the ex-Rock Island yard in Blue ... (more)

BNSF 1870 and others sit near 8th St. in BNSF's Topeka yard Wednesday afternoon. The puddle was left over from the previous night's storms, and was placed awfully nicely for this portrait of the f... (more)

Thursday night, I ran out to KC to photograph the UP 844 coming into town with the PCVKC2 27 before going out to watch the Sporting KC-Seattle playoff match. The train in tow may have been lacklus... (more)

Thanks to the derailment of their new SD70ACe's, the Arkansas & Missouri has been forced to go retro and run as an all-ALCO property again.  A&M C420 #54 turns 50 next year, having been built for... (more)