On Monday, I decided to spend this afternoon down on the Transcon, so I ran down to Emporia to see what I could come up with. Sure enough, the NS 8099 came rolling through with this westbound grai... (more)

On September 3, 2013 Amtrak's Phase III heritage unit #145 left Chicago on the point of #3, and is seen here parked at Kansas City Union Station. As of the time of this writing, the train should b... (more)

This morning, I got out to photograph the UP 4222 leading the PHNCB through my neck of the woods, and was happy to have gotten it at three locations; Topeka, Lawrence, and Bonner Springs. All thr... (more)

Well, I'm a day late with this (thanks, Sporting Kansas City), but here's the 1989 rolling east through Bonner Springs on Sunday morning. I had to wait here for some time, as MOW had the line down... (more)

Well, after 18 years of being out on the road, I finally caught El Diablo. It's the trailing unit on the M-KCKEMP, which had to tie down, and leave their train on the siding, affording me this vi... (more)

On a pleasant September morning, I made the trek up to Aiken Switch to shoot the UP 1943, the "Spirit of the Union Pacific" leading the MNPKS towards Topeka and Kansas City. This is sho... (more)

Private Cars lined up at Kansas City Union Station

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)

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)

Here's the UP 8014 leading the PPTMV2 5 through Topeka this morning. It was an awfully convenient day for one of my classes to be off on a field trip, as I saw this thing hopping onto the Kansas ... (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)

This morning, I stumbled upon this eastbound BNSF manifest (M HUTKCK1 27A) with about as colorful a consist as you'll find these days. BNSF 7130 east passes the signal between Topeka and Tecu... (more)

After rounding one leg of the wye at SJ Jct., the UP 6270 kindly paused on the ex-Rock Island bridge over the Kansas River to allow for some mainline traffic to pass ahead of it. While the brid... (more)

Clean NS heritage units on the point on a sunny Saturday afternoon? Yes, please. That was also the opinion of MANY of the local railfans, with a thorough caravan chasing the V-BIRKCK through the s... (more)

Wednesday afternoon, I went out for a drive, and one of my first actual chases along the Hiawatha Sub. Here's the UP 1943 on the point of loaded Rail train WWGPUR-14, running west out of Hiawatha ... (more)