C&NW AC4400CW 8803, SP AC4400CW 120 and UP AC6000CW 7006 leads a coal train through Parsons, Kansas.

Running on rights granted as part of the UP/MP merger, a D&RGW train from Kansas City is westbound on UP's former Missouri Pacific Pueblo line. This traffic would grow substantially in following ... (more)

A BNSF Local heading west on the BNSF Emporia Sub.

This afternoon, BNSF's two new "Snow Coaches" left Topeka for the first time on a shakedown run behind the BNSF 4477. These are now the BNSF 70 and 71, and each one of the ex-Santa Fe H... (more)

UP 4014 storms up the 1% grade eastbound out of Sharon Springs, Kansas. The Limon Subdivion is a roller-coaster of 1% grades for 210 miles. The grade profile and crisp clear weather made for an i... (more)

An eastbound D&RGW manifest - running on rights granted as part of UP/MP merger - has just cleared at Bridgeport, allowing a westbound coal empty to resume its trek behind an SD50/C36-7 duo. The ... (more)

A young fellow paces the GP38-2s heading down the middle of Fourth (or was it Fifth?) Street. Train is headed south on UP's McPherson Branch, but it is a new train, put on after UP/MP merger, and... (more)

Former KCS 4103 is now working for the SKOL as it leads a dog's breakfast lashup about to cross the UP/MP diamond at Benedict, KS. Also in the consist is ex Ohio Central GP35 6629, ex CCP GP8 1505... (more)

#4014 hustles Westbound across Union Pacific's Kansas Pacific mainline in western Kansas.

Union Pacific's restored Big Boy charges Westbound out of Hays, KS during an early morning snow storm.

Union Pacific "Big Boy" No. 4014 departs Sharon Springs, Kansas, and enters the Limon Subdivision after getting a track warrant to head west to its next layover stop in Limon, Colorado, ... (more)

Tuesday afternoon, I was able to get out for a little bit to catch the Big Boy rolling into Topeka on its jaunt west from KC. These photos were taken from MP 67 on the Kansas Sub, otherwise known ... (more)

KCS SD40-2 682, SD40-2 678 and SD40-2 698. No photographer listed on slide.

4014 sits quiet in Topeka for the night. She was staged next to a patched SP unit making for the fun photo op.

Union Pacific's famed "Big Boy" steam locomotive is on the last week of a two month tour around the system as it rolls past the intermediate block signals at MP 57.8 between Lawrence and... (more)