With the grungiest looking motor on the point, a SP double stack train heads into the sunset.

AUGUSTA KS Feb 17 1985 — Santa Fe B23-7 6355 rolls through Augusta with a mixed freight. The unit was built by GE in April 1978. It became BNSF 4212 on Feb 14 2000. I believe it is still operati... (more)

OK-KS Oct 1977 — The last picture of a long day chasing trains from El Reno OK north yielded this night shot of Rock Island 353. Fellow railfan Zoli Vajda and I used my Braun RL915 strobe but ha... (more)

A fast Santa Fe 16 car mail train is seen west of Florence Kansas on July 1st 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

This is my 5,000th photo on Railpics. It has been a good run over the past 17 years. Thanks for all the views, comments, favorites, and support from many. Here is one of my favorite from my KYLE t... (more)

After a 20-hour shutdown for a winter storm, the KYLE was back to business Thursday westbound towards Limon. Here the crew snakes over the grade between at Levant as the crew does their work on th... (more)

There are some cool relics along this old Rock Island mainline to Colorado Springs. A lot of the code line has been taken down along with some of the ABS signals. Here east of Brewster, along old ... (more)

After a 20-hour shut down for a winter storm, the KYLE was back to business Thursday westbound towards Limon. Here the crew snakes over the grade between Sleden and Rexford on the Phillipsburg Sub... (more)

An eastbound oil train from Helper, UT, to St, James, LA, is just out of Salina, KS. The train is working east on the Salina Sub and passes these ancient UP ABS signals near Solomon. Solomon the w... (more)

We unfortunately heard this guy coming alittle late to do much with him. The UP Marysville Sub runs along the Little Blue River in an area that is no man's land west of Hanover near the Nebraska/K... (more)

My favorite MKT units were these oddities. I always wondered how they pulled compared to a straight GP9s. And why did they buy dynamic brakes only on these. Most are pictured from the other en... (more)

A Kansas City to Tulsa freight train rolls south on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. The train is seen here passing over the 565 foot long Marais Des Cygnes River bridge on the northside of Lacygne. The tr... (more)

A Tulsa to Galesburg freight train hustles thru the small town of Lacygne on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. The train is working north towards KC which is about 60 miles away. This train comes out of Tul... (more)

A Tulsa to Galesburg freight train hustles thru the small town of Lacygne on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. The train is working north towards KC which is about 60 miles away. This train comes out of Tul... (more)

Salina once played host to 4 different railroads. The Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific, and Rock all came into Salina. All 4 railroads had trackage just east of the depot, but only the ex... (more)