On a hot, July evening, a few of us ventured out south of Kansas City to photograph the Missouri & Northern Arkansas, as word had gotten out about one of their ex-SP Tunnel Motors leading it out o... (more)

Just as the sun was about to hit the horizon tonight, I shot the UP 7702 leading the G-EN4IL 06 off of the "New South" in Topeka, KS for the ex-RI towards Herington.

While roaming around Kansas City, I stumbled upon this crazy-colorful consist on this Knoche-Argentine transfer. Here, it's pulling through the Gooseneck, alongside a southbound coal train out of... (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)

A pair of UP's great looking SD40N's roll west through Kansas City's West Bottoms neighborhood with the Neff-18th St. transfer. At the time, the UP 669, a GP38-2 with the Baby Wings was working 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)

ATSF 999714 and the GN 2568 lay over in Topeka, KS outside of the Santa Fe station on 11/14/2016. Given the location, the old Unclaimed Freight building in the background, depot and more, this pa... (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)

On Saturday, I caught the BNSF 670 and 688 leading the Knoche-Argentine transfer rolling through the West Bottoms and under Kansas City's distinctive 12th St. viaduct.

Monday morning, I caught the UP 9054 backing into the Topeka depot ahead of it's trip to KC with the P-TPKC. Apparently, UP's CEO was in tow on this trip, along with plenty of others. I'm sure the... (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)

Earlier this week, I was turned onto this interesting switching operation in suburban KC by Zach Pumphery, and with free time at my disposal, I knew I HAD to get out to shoot them. This is Spac... (more)

This afternoon, the BNSF 7093 led a five car office train (O-GALTOP) west through the area on its way back to Topeka, and I was able to get it twice.  The power might suck, but at least there are... (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)

When the UP track inspector discovered the washout, there were already at least two westbounds on their Topeka Sub that could've potentially ended up in "the drink." One of these was th... (more)